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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback - 2006
by Abbott, Edwin A
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- Title Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Oxford World's Classics)
- Author Abbott, Edwin A
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
- Date July 17, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0192805983.G
- ISBN 9780192805980 / 0192805983
- Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 5 x 7.7 x 0.5 in (12.70 x 19.56 x 1.27 cm)
- Reading level 1280
- Library of Congress subjects Fourth dimension
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its hierarchies.A square, who is a resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, dreams of the one-dimensional Lineland. He attempts to convince the monarch of Lineland of the possibility of another dimension, but the monarch cannot see outside the line. The square is then visited himself by a Sphere from three-dimensional Spaceland, who must show the square Spaceland before he can conceive it. As more dimensions enter the scene, the story's discussion of fixed thought and the kind of inhuman action which accompanies it intensifies.