Edwin A. Abbott
Born
in Marylebone, London, England, The United Kingdom
December 20, 1838
Died
October 12, 1926
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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..”
― Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
― Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
“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.”
― Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
― Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Polls
August 2017 Old School Classic Poll
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 1826, 410 pages
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 1895, 310 pages
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare 1613, 352 pages
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 1895, 170 pages
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 1883, 262 pages
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos 1782, 448 pages
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 1790, 269 pages
The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley 1200, 782 pages
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 1767, 784 pages
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott 1884, 96 pages
The Analects by Confucius -476, 249 pages
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun 1892, 348 pages
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan 1405, 282 pages
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