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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
p. 9Its institutions. The University of Wentbridge (§ 5), Flatland’s Cambridge, is where the higher classes learn Sight Recognition and sit their final examinations, and below it stand the Elementary and Infant Schools of § 5 and the State Hospitals of § 3. The Assemblies of the States, which bring together all the States of Flatland, may be called in extraordinary session (§ 9), and the State Prison is named in § 12 among the ends that await those who will not have their irregularities cured.
Other worlds. Lineland is a world of one dimension (§ 13), Spaceland, the readers’ own world of three, is named from § 1, and Pointland is a world of no dimensions.
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.About This Reading Edition
Edwin A. Abbott’s mathematical romance of a Square in a two-dimensional world, in the revised text of 1884, with an introduction, full notes and a chapter outline.
Historical Text
Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, first published by Seeley and Co., London, in 1884 under the pseudonym A Square. This supplied annotated edition follows the revised second edition of 1884, established from a modern transcription collated against that printing.
About This Edition
Revised second edition, Seeley and Co., London, 1884; supplied annotated Diotimos edition, 2026
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Edwin A. Abbott’s historical text is in the public domain. Introduction, notes and apparatus © 2026 Diotimos Editions.