Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being who is whisked away by a mysterious visitor to The Land of Three Dimensions, an experience that forever alters his worldview/5(56).

Frustrated, the Sphere pushes A Square back into Flatland. Back in Flatland again, A Square has another dream. In this vision, the Sphere accompanies him to the land of Pointland, the Abyss of No Dimensions. They meet the Monarch of Pointland, whose entire universe is himself. In fact, no matter what A Square says to wake the Monarch out of his.

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Chandler Stephens Mrs. Stover 4th Period Pointland Nothing but a point. No dimensions. Lineland One dimension. "Only by the sound of the voice could sex or age be distinguished." "No one could move to the right or left to make way for passers by, it followed that no Linelander.

LibriVox recording of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Abbott Abbott. Read by Ruth Golding. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture.

Page 16 - I, the sole possessor of the truths of Space and of the theory of the introduction of Light from the world of Three Dimensions — as if I were the maddest of the mad! But a truce to these painful digressions: let me return to our houses. The most common form for the construction of a house is five-sided or pentagonal, as in the annexed figure/5(31).

Mar 10,  · Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott ( English scholar, theologian, and writer.) With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE (Edwin A. Abbott) To The Inhabitants of SPACE IN GENERAL And H. C. IN PARTICULAR This Work is Dedicated By a Humble Native of Flatland In the Hope that Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries.

By: Edwin Abbott Abbott () If you've never heard the term “Mathematical Fiction” before, Edwin Abbott Abbott's novella, Flatland can certainly enlighten you! Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions was published in and since then, it has been discovered and re-discovered by succeeding generations who have been delighted by its unique view of society and people.

"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions", by a Square (pseudonym for Edwin A. Abbott) is not a romance in the modern sense of the word. There are no torn bodices, nor longing looks. The book was written at the tail end of the Romantic Period in meponiheartsoftted.niepradgannecamulodifvemecbata.co is rather a fanciful view of what a universe might look like should it contain only two dimensions.