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Genre/Form: | Science fiction Belletristische Darstellung Classics Anecdotes Fiction Anecdotes, facetiae, satire |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edwin Abbott Abbott; Rosemary Jann |
ISBN: | 019953750X 9780199537501 |
OCLC Number: | 232647940 |
Notes: | This ed. based on Flatland: a romance of many dimensions / with illustrations by the author, A. Square. New and rev. ed. London : Seeley & Co, 1884. This ed. originally published: 2006. |
Description: | xlii, 124 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
Series Title: | Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) |
Responsibility: | Edwin A. Abbott ; edited with an introduction and notes by Rosemary Jann. |
Abstract:
How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? In Flatland, A Square's linear world is invaded by a Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, the novel enlarges readers' imaginations beyond the limits of our 'respective dimensional prejudices'.
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