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Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions

by Edwin A. Abbott, Alan Lightman
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Synopsis

An odd, amusing and still provocative fantasy. The narrator is a Square who lives in a world of two dimensions, and whose vision of a third gets him into grave trouble with the authorities.

Saturday Review

"This pre-Einstein geometrical fantasy is one of the best things of its kind that has ever been written, for it is more than an ingeniously sustained fantasy: it is a social satire, with wit as sharp as the sub-lutrous end of a Flatland woman; it is an easy philosophical introduction to the Fourth Dimension; and it is a rebuke to everyone who holds that there is no reality beyond what is perceptible by human senses."

About the Author, Edwin A. Abbott

Rosemary Jann is a professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University.

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Book Details

Published
June 1, 1998
Publisher
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780140435313

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