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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926. English scholar, theologian, and writer.)
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.
CONTENTS:
PART I: THIS WORLD
PART II: OTHER WORLDS
PART I: THIS WORLD
"Be patient, for the world is broad and wide."
Section 1. Of the Nature of Flatland
Section 2. Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
Section 3. Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
Section 4. Concerning the Women
Section 5. Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
Section 6. Of Recognition by Sight
Section 7. Concerning Irregular Figures
Section 8. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
Section 9. Of the Universal Colour Bill
Section 10. Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
Section 11. Concerning our Priests
Section 12. Of the Doctrine of our Priests
PART II: OTHER WORLDS
"O brave new worlds, that have such people in them!"
Section 13. How I had a Vision of Lineland
Section 14. How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
Section 15. Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
Section 16. How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland
Section 17. How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
Section 18. How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
Section 19. How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it
Section 20. How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
Section 21. How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success
Section 22. How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
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