Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Author: Edwin A. Abbott
“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it … and you will have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.”Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott’….Read More
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