Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
By Edwin Abbott Abbott
Cover: Melencolia I (1514), engraving by Albrecht D�rer (1471-1528) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1528)
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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Table of contents
- 1: Of the Nature of Flatland
- 2: Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
- 3: Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
- 4: Concerning the Women
- 5: Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
- 6: Of Recognition by Sight
- 7: Concerning Irregular Figures
- 8: Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
- 9: Of the Universal Colour Bill
- 10: Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
- 11: Concerning our Priests
- 12: Of the Doctrine of our Priests
- 13: How I had a Vision of Lineland
- 14: How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
- 15: Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
- 16: How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me
- 17: How the Sphere, having in vain tried words,
- 18: How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
- 19: How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries
- 20: How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
- 21: How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions
- 22: How I then tried to diffuse the Theory