# Flatland — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott.

- [Dedication](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/dedication.md): The author, a humble native of Flatland, dedicates this work to the inhabitants of space in general and H. C. in particular, expressing hope that just as he was initiated into the mysteries of three dimensions, the citiz
- [Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/preface-to-the-second-and-revised-edition-1884.md): The Editor introduces the Square's second edition, addressing two objections: an intellectual one about the unrecognized dimension of height in Flatland, and a moral one about the Square's alleged woman-hating and aristo
- [Flatland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/flatland.md): The Square introduces the world of Flatland, a two-dimensional plane inhabited by geometric figures, and explains its social hierarchy, where polygons are ranked by the number of their sides and women are represented as 
- [Part I: This World](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/part-i-this-world.md): The narrator, a Square, introduces the world of Flatland, a two-dimensional plane inhabited by geometric shapes. He describes the social hierarchy based on the number of sides, with Circles at the top and Isosceles Trian
- [I: Of the Nature of Flatland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/i-of-the-nature-of-flatland.md): The narrator, a Square, introduces the two-dimensional world of Flatland, explaining its geometry and the limitations of perception. He describes how inhabitants appear as straight lines to each other due to the lack of 

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- [Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/ii-of-the-climate-and-houses-in-flatland.md)
- [III: Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/iii-concerning-the-inhabitants-of-flatland.md)
- [Concerning the Women](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/iv-concerning-the-women.md)
- [V: Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/v-of-our-methods-of-recognizing-one-another.md)
- [VI: Of Recognition by Sight](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/vi-of-recognition-by-sight.md)
- [VII: Concerning Irregular Figures](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/vii-concerning-irregular-figures.md)
- [Of the Ancient Practice of Painting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/viii-of-the-ancient-practice-of-painting.md)
- [IX: Of the Universal Colour Bill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/ix-of-the-universal-colour-bill.md)
- [X: Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/x-of-the-suppression-of-the-chromatic-sedition.md)
- [Concerning Our Priests](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/xi-concerning-our-priests.md)
- [XII: Of the Doctrine of Our Priests](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/xii-of-the-doctrine-of-our-priests.md)
- [Part II: Other Worlds](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/part-ii-other-worlds.md)
- [XIII: How I Had a Vision of Lineland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/xiii-how-i-had-a-vision-of-lineland.md)
- [XIV: How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/xiv-how-i-vainly-tried-to-explain-the-nature-of-flatland.md)
- [XV: Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/xv-concerning-a-stranger-from-spaceland.md)
- [How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/xvi-how-the-stranger-vainly-endeavoured-to-reveal-to-me-in-words-the-mysteries-of-spaceland.md)
- [How the Sphere, Having in Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/xvii-how-the-sphere-having-in-vain-tried-words-resorted-to-deeds.md)
- [How I Came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/xviii-how-i-came-to-spaceland-and-what-i-saw-there.md)
- [XIX: How, Though the Sphere Showed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desired More; and What Came of It](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/xix-how-though-the-sphere-showed-me-other-mysteries-of-spaceland-i-still-desired-more-and-what-came-of-it.md)
- [How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/xx-how-the-sphere-encouraged-me-in-a-vision.md)
- [XXI: How I Tried to Teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to My Grandson, and with What Success](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/xxi-how-i-tried-to-teach-the-theory-of-three-dimensions-to-my-grandson-and-with-what-success.md)
- [XXII: How I Then Tried to Diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by Other Means, and of the Result](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/xxii-how-i-then-tried-to-diffuse-the-theory-of-three-dimensions-by-other-means-and-of-the-result.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/endnotes.md)
- [List of Illustrations](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/flatland_se/chapters/list-of-illustrations.md)

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