![]() ![]() ![]() “Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination.” – The Mathematics Teacher “ Flatland has remained of interest for over a century precisely because of its ability to engage its readers on so many different planes in so many different dimensions.” – Victorian Studies ![]() “This is a delirious book.” – The New York Times Start it and you will fall under its spell.” –Banesh Hoffmann Like all great art, it defies the tyrant Time. “A timeless classic of perennial fascination that seems to have been written for today. How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result.How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success.How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision.How, though the Sphere showed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more and what came of it.How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there.How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds.How the Stranger Vainly Endeavored to Reveal to me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland.How I vainly tried to explain the Nature of Flatland.Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition.Of our Methods of recognizing one another.Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884.Heathenry or: Concerning the text and its illustrations. ![]()
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