β Scribed by Edwin Abbott
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The beloved science fiction classic In 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 citizenβa Squareβdreams of a land of three dimensions. If three dimensions are possible, why not four? Or one? Soon, the Squareβs provocative imagination and corresponding adventures threaten to turn the whole of Flatland against him.Β First published in 1884, two decades before Einsteinβs theory of relativity defined time as the fourth dimension, Edwin Abbottβs Flatland is both a prescient exploration of the unseen and a delightful skewering of Victorian social strictures.Β This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: A century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: A century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.