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An evergreen science fiction classic, Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland presents an alternate vision of society rendered completely in two dimensions. In the titular Flatland, women are line segments and men are polygons with various side lengths and angles. Even in such a simple world, social hierarchies and inequality persist. Social status is determined by a man's regularity of shape and their number of sides. Women, as line segments, are considered dangerous because they can disappear from view and wound others with their end points. In addition to its social critique, Flatland has also been widely praised by scientists like Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking as a useful thought experiment for conceptualizing life in higher and lower dimensions. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
"Edwin A. Abbott (18381926) was an English schoolmaster, theologian, and classical scholar. He graduated from Cambridge University and served as the headmaster of the City of London School for over two decades, where he pioneered advanced modern teaching methods. While he wrote numerous theological and grammatical texts, he is internationally remembered for his 1884 mathematical satire, Flatland. Written under the pseudonym "A Square," the novella brilliantly used geometric dimensions to critique Victorian social hierarchy and expand human imagination regarding higher planes of existence."
Part I: This World I. Of the Nature of Flatland II. Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland III. Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland IV. Concerning the Women V. Of our Methods of Recognizing one another VI. Of Recognition by Sight VII. Concerning Irregular Figures VIII. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting IX. Of the Universal Colour Bill X. Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition XI. Concerning our Priests XII. Of the Doctrine of our Priests Part II: Other Worlds XIII. How I had a Vision of Lineland XIV. How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland XV. Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland XVI. How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland XVII. How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds XVIII. How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there XIX. How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it XX. How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision XXI. How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success XXII. How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
