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

Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions (6th Edition)

Published $\text {1952}$, Dover Publications, Inc.

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