About
"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin Abbott Abbott is a satirical novella published in 1884. Set in a two-dimensional world inhabited by geometric shapes, the story follows a Square who encounters beings from one-dimensional Lineland and is visited by a mysterious Sphere. As his understanding of reality expands beyond the flat plane he knows, he faces a society rigidly structured by shape and dimension—one that violently resists ideas of worlds beyond their own. This mathematical allegory satirizes Victorian class and gender hierarchies while exploring profound questions about perception and dimensional existence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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