| Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Contributor(s): Abbott, Edwin A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1733561625 ISBN-13: 9781733561624 Publisher: Warbler Classics OUR PRICE: $8.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Family Life - Marriage & Divorce - Fiction | Literary |
| Lexile Measure: 1280 |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.25" W x 8" (0.32 lbs) 120 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Edwin A. Abbott's hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred years--including contemporary scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. In this mind-expanding satire, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions describes a two-dimensional world organized by strict caste system of geometrical forms. The narrator, A. Square, introduces us to Flatland before describing his revelatory explorations of Lineland, a one-dimensional world, and Pointland, a world of no dimensions, and the hitherto inconceivable three-dimensional world of Spaceland, through which he is ushered by his Virgil-like guide, Sphere. In Flatland, Square is regarded as a heretic and imprisoned for his belief in the existence of a third, and possibly even a fourth, dimension.
Although it did not achieve popular success on its publication in 1884, Flatland gained a broad audience after the publication of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which focused attention on the concept of a fourth dimension. The book enjoyed another renaissance with the advent of modern science fiction in the late 1930s and is now widely acknowledged as a pioneering work of mathematical fiction. Includes the author's original illustrations and a short biography. |