With wry humor and penetrating satire, Flatland takes us on a mind-expanding journey into a different world to give us a new vision of our own. A. Square, the slightly befuddled narrator, is born into a place limited to two dimensions—irrevocably flat—and peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms. In a Gulliver-like tour of his bizarre homeland, A. Square spins a fascinating tale of domestic drama and political turmoil, from sex among consenting triangles to the intentional subjugation of Flatland?s females. He tells of visits to Lineland, the world of one dimension, and Pointland, the world of no dimension. But when A. Square dares to speak openly of a third, or even a fourth, dimension, his tragic fate climaxes a brilliant parody of Victorian society. An underground favorite since its publication in England in1884, Flatland is as prophetic a science fiction classic as the works of H. G. Wells, introducing aspects of relativity and hyperspace years before Einstein?s famous theories. And it does so with wonderful, enduring enchantment.

With an Introduction by Valerie Smith and a New Afterword by John Allen Paulos

メディア	書籍 Paperback Book (ソフトカバーで背表紙を接着した本)
リリース済み	2013年10月1日
ISBN13	9780451417855
出版社	Penguin Putnam Inc
ページ数	176
寸法	107 × 170 × 12 mm · 90 g
言語	英語
寄稿者	John Allen Paulos
寄稿者	Valerie Smith