Early repairs to jacket at spine and joints foxing to endpapers (otherwise text clean). Octavo, original paper wrappers with illustrated vellum jacket. Published pseudonymously by Abbott as “A Square”. Provenance: Presented by Abbott to Percy Ewing Matheson, Oxford classical scholar and author. Working from the groundwork of philosophical issues raised by Plato’s Republic, Flatland merges social satire and geometry to produce a novel situated in two-dimensional space, a believable world populated by memorable inhabitants whose geometric shapes designate their positions in a complex social structure, one that bears some resemblance to the Victorian class structure” (Lila Marz Harper, Flatland). Since its publication in 1884, the book’s popularity has continued today as its readers have embraced it as science fiction, popular science, and metaphysics.

Flatland is an unusually effective work that spans disciplines and challenges divisional categories. Abbott uses these geometric dimensions to explore gender differences. The story is based on the 1884 science fiction novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin A. Flatland is a two-dimensional world where men are many-sided figures and women are line segments. The cast includes the voices of actors Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell and Tony Hale. While it is acknowledged to be a classic of early science fiction, a work of Victorian social satire, and a religious allegory, it also presents, through its introduction to higher dimensions, an important contribution to the development of an area of mathematics that was eventually merged into non-Euclidean geometry. Flatland: The Movie is a short animated film which was released to video in 2007. “Edwin Abbott’s Flatland may be one of the most unclassifiable works of literature ever published. Matheson / With the Author’s kind regards”. ”I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.”įIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, OF ABBOTT’S CLASSIC, INSCRIBED ON THE HALF-TITLE: “P.E. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a sci fi novella told from the perspective of a denizen of Flatland, a two-dimensional worldwhere women are lines.

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