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Edwin A. Abbott

Born

in Marylebone, London, England, The United Kingdom

December 20, 1838

Died

October 12, 1926

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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People 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 ...more

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	Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions 3.81 avg rating — 79,671 ratings — published 1884 — 288 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flatland / Sphereland 4.01 avg rating — 879 ratings — published 1965 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition 3.46 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1883 — 172 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions / The Disciples Trilogy / The Message of the Son of Man 4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Shakespearian Grammar: An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the Differences between Elizabethan & Modern English 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1901 — 131 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De Planilandia a la Cuarta Dimensión by Edwin A. Abbott, Charles H. Hinton, Claude Bragdon 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ফ্ল্যাটল্যান্ড বহুমাত্রিক জগতের খোঁজে by Edwin A. Abbott, উচ্ছ্বাস তৌসিফ (Goodreads Author) (Translator ) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	St. Thomas of Canterbury: His Death and Miracles, Volume 2 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1980 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paradosis; or, in the Night in which he was Betrayed 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1904 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flatland & Twelve Years A Slave Narrative Of Solomon Northup 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

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“Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his own Universe; of any other than himself he can form no conception; he knows not Length, nor Breadth, nor Height, for he has had no experience of them; he has no cognizance even of the number Two; nor has he a thought of Plurality, for he is himself his One and All, being really Nothing. Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence 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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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott pub. 1884, 166 pages

44 votes, 20.1%

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41 votes, 18.7%

Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell pub 1863, 484 pages

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Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca pub 1635, 96 pages

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The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes by Anonymous pub 1270, 343 pages

33 votes, 15.1%

The Odd Women by George Gissing pub 1893, 432 pages

15 votes, 6.8%

Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana Jr. pub 1840, 458 pages

10 votes, 4.6%

Phantastes by George MacDonald pub 1858, 216 pages

5 votes, 2.3%

219 total votes

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