Flatland: A Romance of Many DimensionsThrough the eyes of its narrator A Square, this novel implicitly satirizes a Victorian society in the grips of extraordinarily rapid change. |
Contents
OF THE NATURE OF FLATLAND | 3 |
OF THE CLIMATE AND HOUSES IN FLATLAND | 6 |
CONCERNING THE INHABITANTS OF FLATLAND | 9 |
CONCERNING THE WOMEN | 13 |
OF OUR METHODS OF RECOGNIZING ONE ANOTHER | 19 |
OF RECOGNITION BY SIGHT | 24 |
CONCERNING IRREGULAR FIGURES | 30 |
OF THE ANCIENT PRACTICE OF PAINTING | 34 |
HOW I HAD A VISION OF LINELAND | 59 |
HOW I VAINLY TRIED TO EXPLAIN THE NATURE OF FLATLAND | 65 |
CONCERNING A STRANGER FROM SPACELAND | 71 |
HOW THE STRANGER VAINLY ENDEAVOURED TO REVEAL TO ME IN WORDS THE MYSTERIES OF SPACELAND | 75 |
HOW THE SPHERE HAVING IN VAIN TRIED WORDS RESORTED TO DEEDS | 83 |
HOW I CAME TO SPACELAND AND WHAT I SAW THERE | 86 |
HOW THOUGH THE SPHERE SHOWED ME OTHER MYSTERIES OF SPACELAND I STILL DESIRED MORE AND WHAT CAME OF IT | 92 |
HOW THE SPHERE ENCOURAGED ME IN A VISION | 99 |
OF THE UNIVERSAL COLOUR BILL | 38 |
OF THE SUPPRESSION OF CHROMATIC SEDITION | 43 |
CONCERNING OUR PRIESTS | 48 |
OF THE DOCTRINE OF OUR PRIESTS | 51 |
OTHER WORLDS | 57 |
HOW I TRIED TO TEACH THE THEORY OF THREE DIMENSIONS TO MY GRANDSON AND WITH WHAT SUCCESS | 103 |
HOW I THEN TRIED TO DIFFUSE THE THEORY OF THREE DIMENSIONS BY OTHER MEANS AND OF THE RESULT | 106 |
ENDNOTES | 111 |
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Abbott angles appear Art of Sight ascer Behold CHAPTER Chief Circle Chromatistes Circular Colour Revolt Configuration Contralto course creature Cube Dodecagon door dream Edwin Abbott Equilateral Triangle exis existence feel Female Figure Fourth Dimension Geometrical Progression Gospel of Three Grandson half hearing Hexagon hundred sides infer INHABITANTS OF FLATLAND inside Irregular Isosceles King Land of Three Lineland look Lord Lordship Male marriage mathematical mean Monarch motion mouth moving myste MYSTERIES OF SPACELAND Northward offspring once Peace-cry Pentagon perfect perfect Circle Perimeter Plane Pointland Polygon Priests Readers in Spaceland recognize Regular replied rience sense of sight Sight Recognition social Soldiers Solid Space speak Sphere Square Square's Straight Line Stranger suppose tablets tence terminal points things Third Dimension thou Three Dimensions three inches tion Tradesman truth Universal Colour Bill Upward Victorian vision voice Wentbridge whole Wife Woman Women words