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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square",[1] the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.[2] A sequel, Sphereland, was written by Dionys Burger in 1957. Several films have been based on Flatland, including the feature film Flatland (2007). Other efforts have been short or experimental films, including one narrated by Dudley Moore and the short films Flatland: The Movie (2007) and Flatland 2: Sphereland (2012).[3] The story describes a two-dimensional world inhabited by geometric figures (flatlanders[4]); women are line segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers thro

Flatland - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1884 novella by Edwin Abbott Abbott This article is about the novella. For other uses, see Flatland (disambiguation) . Not to be confused with Flatworld . Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions The cover to Flatland , first edition Author Edwin A. Abbott Illustrator Edwin A. Abbott Genre Science fiction Publisher Seeley & Co. Publication date 1884 Publication place England Pages 96 OCLC 2306280 LC Class QA699 Text Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions at Wikisource Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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