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Violence
None
No violence
Language
None
No strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild; the philosophical disorientation of encountering a higher dimension — and the impossibility of explaining it
What this book is about
Edwin Abbott Abbott's 1884 mathematical satire follows A. Square, a resident of Flatland — a two-dimensional world — as he is visited by a Sphere from three-dimensional Spaceland and must confront the impossibility of conveying what he's seen to his fellow Flatland citizens. At once a mathematical thought experiment, a satire of Victorian class and gender hierarchy (women in Flatland are dangerous line segments), and a meditation on the limits of perception.
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Satirizes Victorian class hierarchy and gender roles
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