Flatland

<p>The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, <i>Flatland</i> 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.<br><br>'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' <i>Wall Street Journal</i><br><br>'<i>Flatland</i> could lead to very profound thought about our Universe and ourselves' Isaac Asimov</p> <p>The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, <i>Flatland</i> 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.<br><br>'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' <i>Wall Street Journal</i><br><br>'<i>Flatland</i> could lead to very profound thought about our Universe and ourselves' Isaac Asimov</p>