Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

A world of two dimensions is enough to keep most people satisfied. In Flatland, the gentry are regular polygons, the soldiers are triangles, and women are straight lines, living under laws so strict that no one dares ask if anything might exist beyond the plane. The Square who narrates this tale has lived contentedly among them, until a visitor appears in his study on the eve of a new century: a Circle that swells and shrinks, and proves to be a Sphere from Spaceland. Lifted into the third dimension, the Square sees his own world from above, and the vision changes him forever. This faithful modern retelling keeps Abbott's wit, his sharp satire of Victorian conformity, and his gripping question: what happens to a person who sees what their society refuses to believe? Part of Timeless Classics.