The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dim...

'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the ...

Originally published in 1910, this book contains an exhaustive study of the use of the phrase 'So...

Reproduction of the original: Philochristusby EdwinAbbott

Excerpt: ...he had neither seen me, nor heard anything except confused sounds beating against, wh...

As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. ...

Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was an English clergyman, schoolmaster, Shakespearean scholar, an...

Reproduction of the original: Flatland by EdwinAbbott

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to lit...

Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926) was a schoolmaster and theologian well known as the author of the rel...

To The Inhabitants of Space in General And H. C.INParticularThisWorkisDedicated By a Humble Nativ...

The object of this book is to place before English readers this Common Tradition, as being a trad...