Books
by Edwin A. Abbott
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
This wonderful caprice, first published in 1884, follows the adventures of geometric characters in a two-dimensional world where the number of sides an inhabitant has indicates social status. Women are represented by straight lines – how un-PC is that! But then this is a Victorian jeu d'esprit. Workers are triangles, professional men are squares and so on. You get the drift. The excitement comes when a three-dimensional object invades Flatland - I mustn’t give away any spoilers!
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 112 Spring 2024) |
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