This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926) it describes the journeys of A. Square a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland where women-thin straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes and where men may have any number of sides depending on their social status. Through st...
