Edwin Abbott Abbott

Flatland (Annotated) Edwin Abbott Abbott

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott. The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. It is a satirical novel by the English school teacher Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written under the pen name "A Square," the book used Flatland's two-dimensional fictional world to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novel's most enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. Several films have been made in history, including the film Flatland (2007). Other efforts have been short films or experimental films, including one narrated by Dudley Moore and the shorts Flatland: The Movie (2007) and Flatland 2: Sphereland. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, where women are simple linear segments,