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| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Preface | The opening illustration of Flatland shows a cloud with annotations of the fifth through tenth dimensions. The book's na... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 1–2 | "Flatland" is not actually what the people of A Square's world call their realm. It is merely the name he uses to help... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 3–4 | The people of Flatland are usually no more than 11 inches across, with 12 as an absolute maximum. Men are shapes, and ... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 5–6 | The narrator moves on to the subject of how figures in Flatland recognize each other and assess each other's angles wh... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 7–8 | Up to this point, A Square has been speaking with the assumption that all figures in Flatland are regular: that all wo... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 9–10 | Because color made distinguishing shapes easy, the art of sight recognition was in decline, and other "scientific subj... Read More |
| Part 1, Chapters 11–12 | A Square pauses to say that he is going to skip a lot of information about Flatland. This is not because he hasn't tho... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapters 13–14 | On the penultimate day of the year 1999, A Square has a dream in which he travels to Lineland, a world with only one d... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapters 15–16 | A Square wakes up and finds that it is the last day of the millennium. At the end of the day he sits with his wife, th... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapters 17–18 | A Square tries to attack Sphere but cannot hurt him, as he slips out of Flatland altogether. Sphere had hoped that Squ... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapters 19–20 | A Square tries to rescue his brother but cannot move in three-dimensional space. Sphere tells him not to worry and int... Read More |
| Part 2, Chapters 21–22 | A Square wakes up with a fresh enthusiasm to preach the Gospel of the Third Dimension. However, town criers repeat the... Read More |
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