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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Contributor(s): Abbott, Edwin A. (Author), Smith, Valerie (Introduction by), Paulos, John Allen (Afterword by)

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ISBN: 0451417852     ISBN-13: 9780451417855
Publisher: Signet Book
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Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction
- Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Lexile Measure: 1280
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.3" W x 6.8" L (0.20 lbs) 176 pages
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
 
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With wry humor and 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, the slightly befuddled narrator, is born into a place limited to two dimensions--irrevocably flat--and 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 and 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, and Pointland, the world of no dimension. But when A. Square dares to speak openly of a third, or even a fourth, dimension, his tragic fate climaxes a brilliant parody of Victorian society. An underground favorite since its publication in England in1884, Flatland is as prophetic a science fiction classic as the works of H. G. Wells, introducing aspects of relativity and hyperspace years before Einstein's famous theories. And it does so with wonderful, enduring enchantment.

With an Introduction by Valerie Smith and a New Afterword by John Allen Paulos

 
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