Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Credits: Edwin Abbott Abbott (author)

Summary

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English theologian, Anglican priest and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to satirise the class and gender hierarchies of Victorian society, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.

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Chapters (22)

  1. 1. Of the Nature of Flatland
  2. 2. Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
  3. 3. Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
  4. 4. Concerning the Women
  5. 5. Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
  6. 6. Of Recognition by Sight
  7. 7. Concerning Irregular Figures
  8. 8. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
  9. 9. Of the Universal Colour Bill
  10. 10. Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
  11. 11. Concerning our Priests
  12. 12. Of the Doctrine of our Priests
  13. 13. How I had a Vision of Lineland
  14. 14. How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
  15. 15. Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
  16. 16. How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me
  17. 17. How the Sphere, having in vain tried words,
  18. 18. How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
  19. 19. How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries
  20. 20. How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
  21. 21. How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions
  22. 22. How I then tried to diffuse the Theory

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