Unique Elements Author Biography About Flatland “I looked, and, behold, a new world! There stood before me, visibly incorporate, all that I had before inferred, conjectured, dreamed, of perfect Circular beauty.” Flatland is a satirical novella by English schoolmaster, Anglican priest and author Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Written under the pseudonym “A Square”, who provides us with an overview of a fantastical world, it is the work Abbott is best known for. Using a fictional two-dimensional world – in which women are simple line-segments and men are polygons - as a vehicle to examine and comment on the rigid class structure of Victorian society, its other main focus is the examination of different spacial “dimensions” or realities. A celebrated fiction classic, with timeless appeal.