Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott
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Languages: English, RU, German, Chinese
Genre: Fantasy, Satire, Sci-Fi
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A Square living in a two-dimensional world is shown the third dimension by a Sphere, and is imprisoned for preaching the impossible truth.
Characters
- A Square — Narrator: A square of the respectable professional class, a geometer and the memoir's narrator.
- The Sphere — Visitor from Spaceland: A being from the three-dimensional world who reveals the Third Dimension to the Square.
- The Little Hexagon — The Square's grandson: A precocious young Hexagon who guesses at a third dimension by arithmetical analogy.
- The Monarch of Lineland — King of the one-dimensional world: Ruler of Lineland, certain that his single line is the whole of the universe.
- The King of Pointland — The solitary Point: A Point who is his own entire universe and mistakes his own thought for all things.
- The Square's Wife — A Woman of Flatland: The narrator's wife, a Straight Line like all the Women of Flatland.