Flatland - Couverture souple

Abbott, Edwin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2909848264 ISBN 13 : 9782909848266

Editeur : Anatolia - Le Rocher, 1996

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

English schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the mathematical satire and religious allegory Flatland (1884). He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honors in classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college. He succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of twenty-six. He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Dr. Abbott's liberal inclinations in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology. In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and Sitanus (1906).

Présentation de l'éditeur

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott.

Writing pseudonymously as "a Square", Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Anatolia - Le Rocher
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: français
• ISBN 10: 2909848264
• ISBN 13: 9782909848266
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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