Edwin A. Abbott

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December 20, 1838 in The United Kingdom

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October 12, 1926

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Edwin Abbott Abbott (December 20, 1838 - 1926), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire Flatland (1884).

He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honours in classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college. In 1862 he took orders. After holding masterships at King Edward's School, 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 twenty-six. He was Hulsean lecturer in 1876.

He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Dr. Abbott's liberal inclinations in theology were pr...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 11,070 ratings · 1,015 reviews · 34 distinct works

	Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions 3.76 avg rating — 10,952 ratings — published 1884 — 239 editions	My rating:
	How to Write Clearly 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1883 — 34 editions	My rating:
	A Shakespearian Grammar: An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the Differences between Elizabethan & Modern English 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1901 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Paradosis; or, in the Night in which he was Betrayed 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1904 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Parables for Children 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1873 — 4 editions	My rating:
	St. Thomas of Canterbury: His Death and Miracles, Volume 2 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1980 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, Robin Field (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, Robin Field (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
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	From Letter to Spirit; An Attempt to Reach Through Varying Voices the Abiding Word 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Upward, not Northward”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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“...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy..”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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“I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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