# Flatland

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- Book: [Flatland](https://www.bookquiver.com/edwin-abbott-abbott/flatland) ([Flatland.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edwin-abbott-abbott/flatland.md))
- Authors: [Edwin Abbott](https://www.bookquiver.com/edwin-abbott-abbott)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-289-1
- Published: 2020-08-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A work that still poses provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. The amiable narrator, A. Square, provides an overview of this fantastic world - its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered. Written more than a century ago, Flatland offers an extraordinary animation of dimension, geometry and physical space that continues to resonate in contemporary science.