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Flatland: A romance of many dimensions
Are you blind to the higher reality staring right at you?
BEYOND THE THIRD THE REVELATION THAT WAS FORBIDDEN
For centuries, humanity has locked itself inside a prison of the senses, fiercely denying what it cannot touch, see, or measure. But what if everything you call "reality" is nothing more than a flat, tragic illusion? What if the universe is screaming a truth you are evolutionarily blocked from hearing?
First published as a dangerous piece of mathematical heresy, Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland is no longer just a satirical masterpiece—it is a prophetic blueprint for the modern mind.
Step inside a terrifyingly rigid world where your entire worth is dictated by your geometric shapes, and a simple line can cost you your life. Follow the mind-bending awakening of A Square as he is brutally ripped away from his two-dimensional cage by a mysterious higher entity. Witness the breathtaking, ecstatic shock of discovering the third dimension—and the heartbreaking price of trying to bring that forbidden truth back to a world blinded by its own ignorance.
BEYOND THE THIRD THE REVELATION THAT WAS FORBIDDEN
For centuries, humanity has locked itself inside a prison of the senses, fiercely denying what it cannot touch, see, or measure. But what if everything you call "reality" is nothing more than a flat, tragic illusion? What if the universe is screaming a truth you are evolutionarily blocked from hearing?
First published as a dangerous piece of mathematical heresy, Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland is no longer just a satirical masterpiece—it is a prophetic blueprint for the modern mind.
Step inside a terrifyingly rigid world where your entire worth is dictated by your geometric shapes, and a simple line can cost you your life. Follow the mind-bending awakening of A Square as he is brutally ripped away from his two-dimensional cage by a mysterious higher entity. Witness the breathtaking, ecstatic shock of discovering the third dimension—and the heartbreaking price of trying to bring that forbidden truth back to a world blinded by its own ignorance.
110 pages, Paperback
Published October 20, 2026
About the author
Edwin A. Abbott
211 books972 followersPeople best know British theologian and writer Edwin Abbott Abbott for his imaginative satirical novella
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
(1884).
This English schoolmaster authored of the mathematical satire.
He was educated at the city of London school and at college of Saint John, Cambridge, where he as fellow took the highest honors in classics, mathematics, and theology. In 1862, he took orders. After holding masterships at school of king Edward, Birmingham, and at Clifton college, he succeeded G.F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of 26 years. He was Hulsean lecturer in 1876.
He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Liberal inclinations of Abbott in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology. In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and Sitanus (1906).
More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk (1886), Philomythus (1891), his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman (1892), and his article "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world. He also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles (1898), Johannine Vocabulary (1905), Johannine Grammar (1906). Flatland was published in 1884.
Sources that say he is the brother of Evelyn Abbott (1843 - 1901), who was a well-known tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, and author of a scholarly history of Greece, are in error.
This English schoolmaster authored of the mathematical satire.
He was educated at the city of London school and at college of Saint John, Cambridge, where he as fellow took the highest honors in classics, mathematics, and theology. In 1862, he took orders. After holding masterships at school of king Edward, Birmingham, and at Clifton college, he succeeded G.F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of 26 years. He was Hulsean lecturer in 1876.
He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Liberal inclinations of Abbott in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology. In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and Sitanus (1906).
More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk (1886), Philomythus (1891), his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman (1892), and his article "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world. He also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles (1898), Johannine Vocabulary (1905), Johannine Grammar (1906). Flatland was published in 1884.
Sources that say he is the brother of Evelyn Abbott (1843 - 1901), who was a well-known tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, and author of a scholarly history of Greece, are in error.
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