Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Abbott, Edwin A
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Synopsis
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "a square", Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture.
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Q06600
- Title
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
- Author
- Abbott, Edwin A
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell/Oxford
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