Flatland

Author: Abbott, Edwin

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 6 August 2020 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Science Fiction' series.

Paperback / softback | 160 pages
111 x 179 x 13 | 100g

The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes - until one of its inhabitants, 'A. Square', has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is an invitation to see beyond our own reality.

'At once a playful brainteaser about geometry, a pointed satire of Victorian manners - and a strangely compelling argument about the greatest mysteries of the Universe' Wall Street Journal'Flatland could lead to very profound thought about our Universe and ourselves' Isaac Asimov