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Flatland
A Romance of Many Dimensions
2014
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The beloved science fiction classicIn Flatland, the more sides a man has, the more powerful he is. Triangles are laborers and soldiers. Squares and pentagons are middle-class doctors and lawyers. Hexagons are nobility. Women, however, are straight lines, incapable of advancement in a two-dimensional world. Everything in Flatland is clear-cut and orderly, until the day an average citizen—a Square—dreams of a land of three dimensions. If three dimensions are possible,...
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If my poor Flatland friend retained the vigour of mind which he enjoyed when he began to compose these Memoirs, I should not now need to represent him in this preface, in which he desires, firstly, to return his thanks to his readers and critics in Spaceland, whose appreciation has, with unexpected celerity, required a second edition of his work; secondly, to apologize for certain errors and misprints (for which, however, he is not entirely responsible); and, thirdly, to explain one or two...
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How to Write Clearly by the English schoolmaster and theologian, Edwin Abbott Abbott.He is best known as the author of the novella Flatland.Edwin Abbott Abbott was the eldest son of Edwin Abbott (1808–1882), headmaster of the Philological School, Marylebone, and his wife, Jane Abbott (1806–1882). His pa John's College, Cambridge|St John's College]], Cambridge, where he took the highest honors in classics, mathematics and theology, and became a fellow of his college.
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2025
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The Kernel and the Husk is a collection of letters by Edwin Abbott, a theologian and educator, which explores the nature of Christianity from a spiritual perspective. Through a series of letters, Abbott addresses a range of theological issues, focusing on the distinction between the "kernel" (the spiritual essence) and the "husk" (the external forms and rituals) of Christianity. The work is both a personal reflection and a philosophical discourse, offering insights into Abbott’s views on t...
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3 hours 8 min
2025
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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions." As such, the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, phy...
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- Penguin Science Fiction
2020
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The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes - until one of its inhabitants, 'A. Square', has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is an invitation to see beyond our own reality.'At once a playful brainteaser about geometry, a pointed satire of Victorian manners - and a strangely compelling argument about the greatest mysteries of...
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2017
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My former name was Joseph the son of Simeon, and I was born in Sepphoris, the metropolis of Galilee, in the twentieth year of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, about four years before the death of King Herod. In those days Israel was grievously afflicted, and tribulation befell the righteous. Satan put it into the heart of the rulers of the land to move the people to the worship of false gods, and the Lord God had not yet raised up a Redeemer for Israel...
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Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (1884). Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella. The book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, w...
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Flatland
A Romance of Many Dimensions
2025
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin A. Abbott, is a satirical novella narrated by A. Square, a two-dimensional figure living in a rigidly stratified world where social rank is determined by the number of sides one has and where women are reduced to line segments under strict control. When a mysterious Sphere from three-dimensional “Spaceland” visits, A. Square is forced to confront the limits of his perception and the dogmas of Flatland’s society. Through its imaginative geome...
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Flatland
A Romance of Many Dimensions
2025
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott is a satirical novella in which a square narrates life in Flatland, a two-dimensional world ruled by rigid geometry and strict social hierarchy. As he explains the customs, class system, and limitations of his plane, he becomes increasingly troubled by the confines of Flatland’s “common sense.” His worldview is shattered when he encounters a sphere from three-dimensional space, who reveals higher dimensions and challenges Flatland’s...
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