literature fiction Edwin Abbott · 1884 · Literature Fiction
EBOOK FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS ***
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926. English scholar, theologian, and writer.)
I "O day and night, but this is wondrous strange" I I ______ I I / / /I ------ / /I /I / /-. I I /---- / /__I / / /__I / I / / / I I / /___ / I / /___ / I / I/ /__.-' I I I I No Dimensions One Dimension I I. A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS ----- I I POINTLAND LINELAND I I I I Two Dimensions Three Dimensions I I ___ __ I I I I /__/I I I I___I I__I/ I I FLATLAND SPACELAND I I "Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk!" I -----------------------------------------------------------------
With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE (Edwin A. Abbott)
To
The Inhabitants of SPACE IN GENERAL And H. C. IN PARTICULAR This Work is Dedicated By a Humble Native of Flatland
In the Hope that
Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries
Of THREE Dimensions
Having been previously conversant
With ONLY TWO
So the Citizens of that Celestial Region May aspire yet higher and higher To the Secrets of FOUR FIVE OR EVEN SIX Dimensions Thereby contributing To the Enlargement of THE IMAGINATION And the possible Development Of that most rare and excellent Gift of MODESTY Among the Superior Races
Of SOLID HUMANITY
Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884.
By the Editor
If my poor Flatland friend retained the vigour of mind which he enjoyed wh…