Flatland

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Read Books Ltd, Apr 16, 2013 - Fiction - 157 pages
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THIS WORLD
Of the Nature of Flatland
Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
Concerning the Women
Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another
Of Recognition by Sight
Concerning Irregular Figures
Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
Concerning Our Priests
Of the Doctrine of Our Priests
OTHER WORLDS
How I Had a Vision of Lineland
How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland
Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland

Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
Of the Universal Colour Bill
How the Sphere Having in Vain Tried Words Resorted to Deeds

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