Paperback, by Read Books
With wry humor & penetrating satire, Flatland takes us on a mind-expanding journey into a different world to give us a new vision of our own. A. Square, a slightly befuddled narrator, is born into a place which is limited to two dimensions--irrevocably flat--& peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms. In a Gulliver-like tour of his bizarre homeland, A. Square spins a fascinating tale of domestic drama & political turmoil, from sex among consenting triangles to the intentional subjugation of Flatland's females. He tells of visits to Lineland, the world of one dimension, & Pointland, the world of no dimension. But when A. Square dares to speak openly of a 3rd, even a 4th dimension, his tragic fate climaxes a brilliant parody of Victorian society.
An underground favorite since its publication in England in 1884, Flatland is as prophetic a science-fiction classic as the works of H.G. Wells, introducing aspects of relativity & hyperspace years before Einstein's famous theories, & it does so with a wonderful, enduring enchantment.
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