Description
Product ID: | 9780241441572 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Penguin Science Fiction |
Title: | Flatland |
Authors: | Author: Edwin Abbott |
Page Count: | 160 |
Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic science fiction, Classic science fiction |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes - until one of its inhabitants, 'A. Square', has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is an invitation to see beyond our own reality. 'At once a playful brainteaser about geometry, a pointed satire of Victorian manners - and a strangely compelling argument about the greatest mysteries of the Universe' Wall Street Journal'Flatland could lead to very profound thought about our Universe and ourselves' Isaac Asimov The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes - until one of its inhabitants, ''A. Square'', has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is an invitation to see beyond our own reality. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-08-06 |