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Author:	Edwin A. Abbott
Title:	Flatland
Subtitle:	A Romance Of Many Dimensions
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Country:	USA
Date:	1992
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	530.11
Genre:	Science Fiction, Science
ISBN-10:	048627263X
Barcode:	9780486272634
Total Editions:	2
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Unabridged Dover Thrift Edition, edited by Philip Smith, based upon the 1952 Dover edition, including its introduction by Banesh Hoffmann.

84 pages.

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23skidoo 5th Jan 2023		Fans of this classic may want to check out The Planiverse, a science book-science fiction novel hybrid that brings the Flatland concept into the computer age. I read it years before I ever read Flatland.



ppint. ● 5th Jan 2016		originally published under the pseudonym, "a. square". (this comment is from another edition of this book)



Magic Marmalade ● 4th Jan 2016		Rated 10/10 Genius. A very simple and elegant idea that is endlessly meaningful and poignant in any age: It is the story of a square, who lives in a two dimensional world, with other geometric shapes (triangles, and other assorted polygons), who believes his world to be the only possible manner of existence.... until one day, a three dimensional shape enters his world: A sphere ...who presence is detected by the square only as a circle of increasing and decreasing circumference as he passes through his two dimensional plane of existence, which the sphere does to prove to the square that he is of the extra-dimensional variety. To prove that other manners of existence, um... exist, he takes the square to a one dimensional world which is organised as a line, and each of the inhabitants is a piece of that line of varying length, and who jostle for position on the line to organise their social structure, just as the square, in his two dimensional world must feel the edges and corners of the other two dimensional inhabitants to know each other, in what shape each other is. After taking the square high above his own world, to offer him an overview of it, in a perspective he'd never seen before... the square asks the sphere: "What about a Four Dimensional World?" to which the sphere essentially replies: "Don't be silly... there's no such thing!" Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), was a school headmaster, and "Teacher of Genius" at the City Of London School. (this review is from another edition of this book) 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland - Penguin Classics - Paperback - UK - 014043531X (1998)