FlatlandThe 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. |
Contents
Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland | |
Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland | |
Concerning the Women | |
Of our Methods in Recognizing one another | |
Of Recognition by Sight | |
Concerning Irregular Figures | |
Of the Doctrine of our Priests | |
OTHER WORLDS | |
How I had a Vision of Lineland | |
How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland | |
Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland | |
How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland | |
How the Sphere having in vain tried words resorted to deeds | |
How I came to Spaceland and what I saw there | |
Of the Ancient Practice of Painting | |
Of the Universal Colour Bill | |
Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition | |
Concerning our Priests | |
How though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland I still desired more and what came of | |
How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision | |
How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson and with what success | |
How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means and of the result | |
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Common terms and phrases
according to Analogy angles appear Art of Sight Behold Chief Circle Chromatistes Circular Colour Revolt Configuration Contralto convince creature cried Cube cut-throat dimness discern distinguish Dodecagon door dream Equilateral Triangle exclaimed existence extremities feel Female Figure Fourth Dimension Geometrical Progression Gospel of Three Grandson half hearing Hexagon higher classes household hundred sides infer inhabitant of Flatland inside Irregular Isosceles King Land of Three Law of Nature length Lineland listen look Lord Lordship Male marriage Mathematics mean Monarch motion mouth moving mysteries Northwards once Pentagon perfect perfect Circle Perimeter Plane Polygon Priests recognize region Regular replied Sedition sense of sight shew sides equal Sight Recognition Soldier Space speak Sphere Square Straight Line STRANGER suppose tablets Third Dimension thou Three Dimensions three inches Tradesman truth Universal Colour Bill Upwards utterance voice Wentbridge whence whole Wife Woman Women words