Flatland

Description

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its hierarchies. A square, who is a resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, dreams of the one-dimensional Lineland. He attempts to convince the monarch of Lineland of the possibility of another dimension, but the monarch cannot see outside the line. The square is then visited himself by a Sphere from three-dimensional Spaceland, who must show the square Spaceland before he can conceive it. As more dimensions enter the scene, the story's discussion of fixed thought and the kind of inhuman action which accompanies it intensifies.

First Sentence

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

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Other Editions

• Flatland: a romance of many dimensions : with illus. by the author, a square/cby Edwin A. Abbott...Dover Publications1952-01-01
• FlatlandPaperbackCourier Corporation1884-01-01
• FlatlandLibrary BindingBuccaneer Books1988-06-01
• FlatlandHardcoverBrand: Dover Publications1992-10-07
• FlatlandeBookNuVision Publications2003-01-01
• FlatlandeBookBrownstone Books2006-01-01