Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Penguin Classics)
by Edwin A. Abbott
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 014043531X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140435313
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About This Item
Penguin Classics, 1998. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition, with illustrations by the author and Introduction by Alan Lightman. Eighteen b/w illustrations. First published by Seeley & Co., Ltd., London, 1884. Wrappers clean, wear around edges, small front corner creases, pages toned, completely clean and unmarked. This masterpiece of science and mathematical fiction is a unique and entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. Edwin Abbott (1838-1926), an English clergyman and Shakespearean scholar, describes the journey of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of two-dimensional Flatland, where women are thin, straight lines and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is a first-rate introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. Imaginative, stimulating, entertaining. 118 pages. 7.75 x 5". 1998, Penguin Classics.
Synopsis
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "a square", Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture.
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- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030024
- Title
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Penguin Classics)
- Author
- Edwin A. Abbott
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014043531X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140435313
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- N.y
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 118
- Size
- 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
- Keywords
- FANTASY, FICTION; FOURTH DIMENSION;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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