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An evergreen science fiction classic, Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland presents an alternate vision of society rendered completely in two dimensions.
In the titular Flatland, women are line segments and men are polygons with various side lengths and angles. Even in such a simple world, social hierarchies and inequality persist. Social status is determined by a man’s regularity of shape and their number of sides. Women, as line segments, are considered dangerous because they can disappear from view and wound others with their end points. In addition to its social critique, Flatland has also been widely praised by scientists like Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking as a useful thought experiment for conceptualizing life in higher and lower dimensions.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.
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Part I: This World
I. Of the Nature of Flatland
II. Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
III. Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
IV. Concerning the Women
V. Of our Methods of Recognizing
one another
VI. Of Recognition by Sight
VII. Concerning Irregular Figures
VIII. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
IX. Of the Universal Colour Bill
X. Of the Suppression of the
Chromatic Sedition
XI. Concerning our Priests
XII. Of the Doctrine of our Priests
Part II: Other Worlds
XIII. How I had a Vision of Lineland
XIV. How I vainly tried to explain the
nature of Flatland
XV. Concerning a Stranger from
Spaceland
XVI. How the Stranger vainly
endeavoured to reveal to me in
words the mysteries of Spaceland
XVII. How the Sphere, having in vain
tried words, resorted to deeds
XVIII. How I came to Spaceland, and
what I saw there
XIX. How, though the Sphere shewed me
other mysteries of Spaceland, I still
desired more; and what came of it
XX. How the Sphere encouraged me in
a Vision
XXI. How I tried to teach the Theory
of Three Dimensions to my Grandson,
and with what success
XXII. How I then tried to diffuse the
Theory of Three Dimensions by
other means, and of the result