Flatland: Popular Books by Edwin A. Abbott : All times Bestseller Demanding BooksFlatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by Edwin A. Abbott. The story is about a two-dimensional world referred to as Flatland which is occupied by geometric figures. Women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a humble square, a member of the social caste of gentlemen and professionals in a society of geometric figures, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The Square has a dream about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) which is inhabited by lustrous points. He attempts to convince the realm's ignorant monarch of a second dimension but finds that it is essentially impossible to make him see outside of his eternally straight line. |
Contents
Of Our Methods Of Recognizing One Another | |
Of Recognition By Sight | |
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 | |
Concerning Irregular Figures | |
Of The Ancient Practice Of Painting | |
Of The Universal Colour Bill | |
How The Sphere Having In Vain Tried Words Resorted To Deeds | |
How I Came To Spaceland And What I Saw There | |
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