Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin Abbott Abbott is a satirical novella published in 1884. Set in a two-dimensional world inhabited by geometric shapes, the story follows a Square who encounters beings from one-dimensional Lineland and is visited by a mysterious Sphere. As his understanding of reality expands beyond the flat plane he knows, he faces a society rigidly structured by shape and dimension—one that violently resists ideas of worlds
beyond their own. This mathematical allegory satirizes Victorian class and gender hierarchies while exploring profound questions about perception and dimensional existence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926 |
|---|---|
| Title | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland |
| Credits | Stephen Hutcheson, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 60.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | QA: Science: Mathematics |
| Subject | Fourth dimension |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 45506 |
| Release Date | Apr 27, 2014 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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