Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

About Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

With wry humor and penetrating satire, Flatland takes us on a mind-expanding journey into a different world to give us a new vision of our own. A. Square, the slightly befuddled narrator, is born into a place limited to two dimensions--irrevocably flat--and peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms. In a Gulliver-like tour of his bizarre homeland, A. Square spins a fascinating tale of domestic drama and political turmoil, from sex among consenting triangles to the intentional subjugation of Flatland's females. He tells of visits to Lineland, the world of one dimension, and Pointland, the world of no dimension. But when A. Square dares to speak openly of a third, or even a fourth, dimension, his tragic fate climaxes a brilliant parody of Victorian society. An underground favorite since its publication in England in1884, Flatland is as prophetic a science fiction classic as the works of H. G. Wells, introducing aspects of relativity and hyperspace years before Einstein's famous theories. And it does so with wonderful, enduring enchantment. With an Introduction by Valerie Smith and a New Afterword by John Allen Paulos

Publisher

Edwin A. Abbott

Category

arts · fiction · fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Oct 2023

Latest episode

14 Oct 2023

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2023

   Flatland : Section 22 - How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result

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   14 Oct 2023

   Flatland : Section 21 - How the Sphere encouraged me in a vision

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   14 Oct 2023

   Flatland : Section 20 - How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success

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