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"Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."
- Leonard Bernstein
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ZIN Product Number: 10132920
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 83 pages
Edition: Special Value
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN: 048627263X
Release Date: Jan 6, 1983
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
With wry humor and penetrating satire, Flatland takes us on a mind-expanding journey into a different world to give us a new vision of our own. A. Square, the slightly befuddled narrator, is born into a place which is limited to two dimensions—irrevocably flat—and peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms. In a Gulliver-like tour of his bizarre homeland, A. Square spins a fascinating tale of domestic drama and political turmoil, from sex among consenting triangles to the intentional subjugation of Flatland's females. He tells of visits to Lineland, the world of one dimension, and Pointland, the world of no dimension. But when A. Square dares to speak openly of a third, even a fourth dimension, his tragic fate climaxes a brilliant parody of Victorian society.
An underground favorite since its publication in England in 1884, Flatland is as prophetic a science-fiction classic as the works of H.G. Wells, introducing aspects of relativity and hyperspace years before Einstein's famous theories, and it does so with a wonderful, enduring enchantment.
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Century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers; witty satire of Victorian society and unique insights into the fourth dimension.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
Polygon Storm!
-- A reviewer, March 13, 2000
Also Recommended: Sphereland, The Numerology of Dr. Matrix, Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker quintology, The Phantom Tollbooth
Excellent Choice for Student Teachers
-- Brian, January 2, 2001
Excellent Guide to Multi-dimensional Space
-- John C. Longnecker, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, February 8, 2000
Also Recommended: Sphereland, *Any* of Isaac Asimov, Trilogy of the Rings
Bloggs' Review Flawed
-- Rolf W. Valum, February 7, 2000
Sentient Geometry
-- Susanna, a 19-year-old college freshman, February 23, 2001
Also Recommended: Sphereland, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes
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A two-dimensional world
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions. (From the Forward) —Isaac Asimov
| |  | | | | Limitations | ix | | Introduction | xv | | Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884, by the Editor | xix | | Part I | This World | | | 1 | Of the Nature of Flatland | 1 | | 2 | Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland | 4 | | 3 | Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland | 7 | | 4 | Concerning the Women | 11 | | 5 | Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another | 18 | | 6 | Of Recognition by Sight | 24 | | 7 | Concerning Irregular Figures | 31 | | 8 | Of the Ancient Practice of Painting | 36 | | 9 | Of the Universal Colour Bill | 39 | | 10 | Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition | 44 | | 11 | Concerning Our Priests | 50 | | 12 | Of the Doctrine of Our Priests | 53 | | Part II | Other Worlds | | | 13 | How I Had a Vision of Lineland | 61 | | 14 | How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland | 67 | | 15 | Concerning a Strange from Spaceland | 74 | | 16 | How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland | 78 | | 17 | How the Sphere, Having in Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds | 89 | | 18 | How I Came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There | 92 | | 19 | How, Though the Sphere Shewed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desired More; and What Came of It | 98 | | 20 | How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision | 107 | | 21 | How I Tried to Teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to My Grandson, and with What Success | 111 | | 22 | How I Then Tried to Diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by Other Means, and of the Result | 115 |
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