| Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Contributor(s): Abbott, Edwin Abbott (Author) |
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ISBN: 1973917750 ISBN-13: 9781973917755 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Lexile Measure: 1280 |
| Physical Information: 0.16" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.26 lbs) 78 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This 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 Europe. It is rather a fanciful view of what a universe might look like should it contain only two dimensions. The story of flatland begins with a description of the world in two dimensions. People in this world have no concept of depth, only length and width. Nevertheless the world appears to be vertical because the rain simply falls from north to south, so that the houses, made in the shape of a pentagon, serve to keep the inhabitants dry. Fog is fairly common in this world and is one of the means of distinguishing the various inhabitants. |