A Romance of Many Dimensions
With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE (EDWIN A. ABBOTT)
[original title page]
[Fifth Edition, Revised]
Part 1 — THIS WORLD
- Section 1. — Of the Nature of Flatland
- Section 2. — Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
- Section 3. — Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
- Section 4. — Concerning the Women
- Section 5. — Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
- Section 6. — Of Recognition by Sight
- Section 7. — Concerning Irreglular Figures
- Section 8. — Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
- Section 9. — Of the Universal Colour Bill
- Section 10. — Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
- Section 11. — Concerning our Priests
- Section 12 — Of the Doctrine of our Priests
PART II — OTHER WORLDS
“O brave new worlds, That have such people in them!”
- Section 13. — How I had a Vision of Lineland
- Section 14. — How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
- Section 15. — Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
- Section 16. — How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland
- Section 17. — How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
- Section 18. — How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
- Section 19. — How though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland I still desire more and what came of it
- Section 20. — How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
- Section 21. — How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success
- Section 22. — How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result