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Featured text Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Abbot intended his work as a critique on Victorian social hierarchy. Since its publication, however, it has been noted as an early piece of science fiction and, among mathematicians and physicists, for its examination of the concept of dimensions. 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. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows—only hard and with luminous edges—and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said "my universe": but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things. In such a country, you will perceive at once that it is impossible that there should be anything of what you call a "solid" kind; but I dare say you will suppose that we could at least distinguish by sight the Triangles Squares and other figures moving about as I have described them. On the contrary, we could see nothing of the kind, not at least so as to distinguish one figure from another. Nothing was visible, nor could be visible, to us, except straight Lines; and the necessity of this I will speedily demonstrate. (Read on...) or see all featured texts.

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New texts Women's Health in the Twilight Zone (Gwendolynne Sophia Moore, 2012) Three Stories and Ten Poems (Ernest Hemingway, 1923) The Wild Swans at Coole (William Butler Yeats, 1919) Thirty-nine reasons why I am a vegetarian (Henry Stephen Clubb, 1903) Buttered Side Down (Edna Ferber, 1912) Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics (Max Planck, 1915) Letters of Junius (Junius, 1772) A partial listing of some new texts (add)

Collaboration The current Community collaboration is collecting texts related to … WikiProject NARA Recent collaborations: Disney, Domesday survey, Niccolò Machiavelli The current Proofread of the Month is Sawdust & Spangles  (1901) by William Cameron Coup. Recent collaborations:Natural History, Mollusca, A Desk-Book of Errors in English, Yule Logs, English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the nineteenth century, Ninety-three, The World's Famous Orations, vol. 6, Picturesque New Guinea, Picturesque Nepal, The Life of Michael Angelo.

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