Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Part I: This World
  3. Part II: Other Worlds
  4. Section 1. Of the Nature of Flatland
  5. Section 2. Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
  6. Section 3. Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
  7. Section 4. Concerning the Women
  8. Section 5. Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
  9. Section 6. Of Recognition by Sight
  10. Section 7. Concerning Irregular Figures
  11. Section 8. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
  12. Section 9. Of the Universal Colour Bill
  13. Section 10. Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
  14. Section 11. Concerning our Priests
  15. Section 12. Of the Doctrine of our Priests
  16. Section 13. How I had a Vision of Lineland
  17. Section 14. How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
  18. Section 15. Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
  19. Section 16. How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland
  20. Section 17. How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
  21. Section 18. How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
  22. Section 19. How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it
  23. Section 20. How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
  24. Section 21. How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success
  25. Section 22. How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result

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