In 1980 the self-governing island of Britannula has passed a law that every citizen shall retire to a college at sixty-seven and be put to death a year later. President Neverbend, its earnest author, tells how the first man due, his old friend Gabriel Crasweller, begins to have second thoughts, amid a cricket match against England and a gunboat on the horizon.
Trollope’s one venture into the future, a dry satire on progress and reason that is unusual among his novels. Download the free EPUB.