Flatland (Summarized Edition)

Flatland (1884) is a mathematico-philosophical satire narrated by A. Square, an inhabitant of a two‑dimensional world whose rigid social order maps neatly onto Victorian hierarchies. Through visits to Lineland and an irruption of Spaceland, Abbott fuses Euclidean exposition, parable, and speculative fiction to probe perception, orthodoxy, and the limits of inductive reason. The prose oscillates be...