Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by Edwin A. Abbott. First published in 1884, it uses the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture. It also provides an introduction to the concept of multiple dimensions.

Titlepage

Imprint

Dedication

Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884

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 I: This World

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 Showed 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