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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

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"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin Abbott Abbott is a satirical novella published in 1884. The story takes place in a two-dimensional world inhabited by geometric shapes, where social status is determined by the number of one's sides. When a Square encounters beings from other dimensions—including a one-dimensional Lineland and a three-dimensional Spaceland—his understanding of reality is profoundly challenged. Through this imaginative premise, Abbott satirizes Victorian class and gender hierarchies while exploring the concept of dimensions beyond human perception. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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  1. 1Flatland989 chars
  2. 2Chapter 2560 chars
  3. 3Contents1,348 chars
  4. 4FLATLAND66 chars
  5. 5§ 1 Of the Nature of Flatland3,922 chars
  6. 6§ 2 Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland4,631 chars
  7. 7§ 3 Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland7,325 chars
  8. 8§ 4 Concerning the Women10,928 chars
  9. 9§ 5 Of our Methods of Recognizing one another10,383 chars
  10. 10§ 6 Of Recognition by Sight10,131 chars
  11. 11§ 7 Concerning Irregular Figures7,064 chars
  12. 12§ 8 Of the Ancient Practice of Painting5,920 chars
  13. 13§ 9 Of the Universal Colour Bill7,721 chars
  14. 14§ 10 Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition8,795 chars
  15. 15§ 11 Concerning our Priests5,700 chars
  16. 16§ 12 Of the Doctrine of our Priests10,090 chars
  17. 17PART II OTHER WORLDS9,128 chars
  18. 18§ 14 How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland10,417 chars
  19. 19§ 15 Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland6,983 chars
  20. 20§ 16 How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland14,961 chars
  21. 21§ 17 How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds4,916 chars
  22. 22§ 18 How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there9,431 chars
  23. 23§ 19 How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire more; and what came of it13,511 chars
  24. 24§ 20 How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision.6,312 chars
  25. 25§ 21 How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success5,389 chars
  26. 26§ 22 How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result8,621 chars
  27. 27PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND REVISED EDITION, 1884. BY THE EDITOR7,805 chars