Speculative

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Edwin Abbott Abbott, headmaster of the City of London School, published it in 1884 as the memoir of A Square, who lives in a world of two dimensions. A Sphere comes down from above and shows him a world he cannot picture, and when he tells the other Flatlanders about it he is locked up. It is a satire on Victorian England as much as a lesson in geometry.

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Reading time

About 2 hr 15 min

Where to find it

Brobdingnag

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #97. In the public domain in the United States.