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From: The Spectator
Date: 19971018
Author:Carr, Raymond

Raymond Carr

THE FIXED PERIOD

by Anthony Trollope

The Folio Society, L18.95, pp. 154

Anthony Trollope was a workaholic for whom only unremitting toil held at bay the black dog of depression. In December 1880 he wrote to his son, 'I finished on Thursday the novel I was writing, and on Friday I began another. Nothing really frightens me except the idea of enforced idleness.' The novel he began was The Fixed Period. He finished it in 68 days.

The publication of the book shocked a public accustomed to find in Trollope the chronicler of contemporary social life. It is set in the 1980s in ...

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