The Fixed Period (Summarized Edition)

In The Fixed Period, Trollope imagines the future republic of Britannula, where a reforming president, John Neverbend, enacts a law mandating compulsory retirement at sixty-seven and a year of sequestration before humane death at sixty-eight. Narrated by Neverbend in an earnest, self-justifying voice, the novel blends political debate, parliamentary procedure, and domestic comedy into a coolly iro...