Book:Edwin A. Abbott/Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions

Published under the pseudonym A Square.

Contents

 * Introduction (Banesh Hoffmann)


 * Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884. By the Editor


 * PART I: THIS WORLD
 * 1 Of the Nature of Flatland
 * 2 Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
 * 3 Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
 * 4 Concerning the Women
 * 5 Of our Methods in Recognizing one another
 * 6 Of Recognition by Sight
 * 7 Concerning Irregular Figures
 * 8 Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
 * 9 Of the Universal Colour Bill
 * 10 Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
 * 11 Concerning our Priests
 * 12 Of the Doctrine of our Priests


 * PART II: OTHER WORLDS
 * 13 How I had a Vision of Lineland
 * 14 How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
 * 15 Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
 * 16 How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland
 * 17 How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
 * 18 How I came to Spaceland and what I saw there
 * 19 How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it
 * 20 How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
 * 21 How I tried to teach the Theory of Three dimension to my Grandson, and with what success
 * 22 How I then tried to diffuse the Theory on Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result