Screen LibraryFlatland : a romance of many dimensions /
A science fiction classic. The narrator is A. Square, whose flat, middle-class life is suddenly given an exciting new shape by his encounter with a sphere. The sphere introduces A. Square to the joys and sorrows of the third dimension, and the reader is drawn into the deligtful subtleties and irrepr...
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Dover Publications,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 1992. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dover thrift editions
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| Summary: |
A science fiction classic. The narrator is A. Square, whose flat, middle-class life is suddenly given an exciting new shape by his encounter with a sphere. The sphere introduces A. Square to the joys and sorrows of the third dimension, and the reader is drawn into the deligtful subtleties and irrepressible logic of multidimensional thinking. |
| Item Description: | "Unabridged, corrected text of Flatland (original publication: Seeley & Co., Ltd., London, 1884)"--Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 83 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780486272634 048627263X 9780486463353 0486463354 |
| Index Number: | QA699 |
| CLC: | I561.44 |
| Call Number: | I561.44/A131-1 |
| Contents: |
This world: Of the nature of Flatland -- Of the climate and houses in Flatland -- Concerning the inhabitants of Flatland -- Concerning the women -- Of our methods of recognizing one another -- Of recognition by sight -- Concerning irregular figures -- Of the ancient practice of painting -- Of the universal colour bill -- Of the suppression of the chromatic sedition -- Concerning our priests -- Of the doctrine of our priests -- Other worlds: How I had a vision of Lineland -- How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland -- Concerning a stranger from Spaceland -- How the stranger vainly How the sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds --How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there -- How, though the sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it -- How the sphere encouraged me in a vision -- How I tried to teach the theory of three dimensions to my grandson, and with what success -- How I then tried to diffuse the theory of three dimensions by other means, and of the result. |