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Originally published in 1913-17. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Publisher: Hartford : American Journal of EducationPublication date: 1884Subjects: Domestic educationTutors and tutoringNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1901. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Volume: 2Publisher: London, A. [and] C. BlackPublication date: 1898Subjects: Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Introduces Greek grammar. Includes both accidence and syntax. ... Read more

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The binding falls apart.
I cannot complain about the text itself, which is proving extremely useful.

Unfortunately, after using the book for about five days, the binding has completely disintegrated.I am forced to keep the paradigms I've already studied in a binder clip; as soon as I turn a page, it breaks off.

Excellent review text ruined by poor materials quality.

WHAT'S 'REGULAR'?
This appears to be the Greek grammar we used when I was at school, and I'm talking 50 years ago. In its smart modern paperback binding it looks a bit less forbidding, but there is nothing to suggest that it has been updated or revised in any way.

I should think that anyone studying ancient Greek these days is studying it out of some real desire to know the language and its marvellous literature, not because it is an established part of the curriculum, which it isn't these days. There are, I would suggest, right ways and wrong ways of using this book. My idea of the right way is to do the unavoidable hard labour of learning the basic formations of Greek words, but to get into reading some real Greek as quickly as possible rather than trying to master every last nuance that you will find here. You can get a long way with Latin just by the old pedantic method of swotting up declensions and conjugations, but if you try to approach Greek in the same way you will very likely be dead having read no Greek worth reading before you get fully on top of it from that angle. Firstly, this book is full of verb-formations that you are never likely to see in a month of Sundays. Secondly, the verbs in Greek are all over the place - the number of verbs that could be called completely `regular' in the Latin sense is minimal. Nouns and adjectives are easier in that respect, and a little bit of old-style hard slog will reward the effort over these.

What the beginner in classical Greek needs above all is the right kind of teacher. Having mastered the unavoidable groundwork, the student needs to be shown as soon as possible how Greek actually says things, and that is where the real thrill begins to kick in. As the student begins to develop some confidence, this book will come to be more of a work of reference and less of a `primer'. When the general sense of a passage suggests what some unfamiliar-looking verb-form might mean, the book can be used to confirm or falsify the suggestion. However to do that one needs to have an idea where to look in the first place, and it is a bit of a waste of this short life to try to learn, let alone memorise, anything and everything that one might possibly come across when a bit of familiarity with what Greek authors actually said can implant an instinct for the matter far better. Again, in the chapter on syntax the book knows and deploys the correct syntactical term for every kind of usage, no matter how ordinary the usage and how sesquipedalian the term. Some of the terms are genuinely useful and worth committing to memory, for instance the accusative of duration of time or the genitive of comparison. In other cases the Greek usage is no different from ordinary English usage - `ponou mnemon' translates straightforwardly into English as `mindful of toil' and I shall soon have forgotten that this is some `genitive of reference'; and one thing that could really do with removing is the second example in section 8 on page 170 which purports to illustrate the use of two accusatives and contains only one.

Commendably, there is a chapter on Homeric forms, which are a bit baffling to start with for a student whose first acquaintance is necessarily with Attic, the dialect spoken in Athens. This is somewhere again where good teaching and instruction are needed to give the student confidence. I remember L R Palmer in a lecture saying jokingly that in reading the Iliad once you have read the first 23 books the 24th is comparatively simple. In fact the situation is nowhere near as dire as that - the Homeric epics are built on formulae, and one can get used to those surprisingly quickly, but it's better to learn them directly and under guidance with this book as a reference only. In passing I was delighted to note that even at the time of first compiling this book the original editors were on the right side of `the Homeric question', seeing the Iliad and Odyssey as the product of a folk-tradition and ignoring with disdain the despicable and sentimental English pretence to detect a single divinely inspired author through their own superior literary perception. Also useful to the student here is the identification of the `digamma', a w-sound lost by the time Greek adopted alphabetic writing but essential to the understanding of scansion in Homer.

Most pleasing of all are the last two words of the book. Following a particularly indigestible paragraph on Historic Principal Verbs and Primary Conjunctives, we find the words
THE END
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Edwin Abbott's classic description of life in a two-dimensional world. Mathematics, science fiction and satire rolled into one, it entertains as it educates, serving as an analog of difficulty humans have in perceiving, even conceiving of life in a four-dimensional universe. A mind-bending treat for thinkers of every age. ... Read more

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"How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll 'romance of many dimensions' explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension on the eve of the new millennium. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, this classic work of science fiction brilliantly succeeds in enlarging all readers' imaginations beyond the limits of our 'respective dimensional prejudices'. In a world where class is determined by how many sides you possess, and women are straight lines, the prospects for enlightenment are boundless, and Abbott's hypotheses about a fourth and higher dimensions seem startlingly relevant today." This new edition of Flatland illuminates the social and intellectual context that produced the work as well as the timeless questions that it raises about the limits of our perception and knowledge. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions written in and published in 1884 by novelist Edwin A. Abbott and continues to be a popular work read today by students of computer science amd mathematics. This book features ideas which were considered revolutionary in its original form including the concept of other dimensions, and also holds a historical importance due to its satircal viewpoint of the social hierarchy of the Victorian society. This edition of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is presented here in the form of a paperback book. ... Read more

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Poor quality book.


I bought the book "Flatland" on October 23rd 2007. It was published by Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
I had had another version of the book, published by a different house, but had lost it. The ISBN number of the Filiquarian edition is 9781599869285.

I am very annoyed at this book, and it is little short of junk. The publisher admits that it is "Publishing this edition due to its public domain". What a strange thing to say! But now that I have paid for it and read it, I find it to be of a very inferior nature. There are scores of clearly wrong words and spelling errors, and the text is not right justified. It seems to have been typed by one or more poor typists, and there was never any proofreading or spellchecking done. The structure of the paragraphs is often wrong, so that things you may think are part of one conversation are actually someone else's, and belong in a new paragraph.

The original and all other versions had diagrams, which were referred to by the narrator of the book to explain the mathematics of Flatland and to show the various shapes of the population. This edition has no diagrams.It beats me why this book was published, except to rush something into print - no matter how poor and sloppy - just to make money off Edwin Abbott's talent.

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Almost every English boy can be taught to write clearly, so far at least as clearness depends upon the arrangement of words. Force, elegance, and variety of style are more difficult to teach, and far more difficult to learn; but clear writing can be reduced to rules. ... Read more

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Chapters: Joe Strummer, Kingsley Amis, Max Newman, Edwin Abbott Abbott, H. H. Asquith, Daniel Radcliffe, Edward James Stone, Percy Gardner, Ernest Arthur Gardner, City of London School, Stewart Farrar, James Leasor, John Lawrence Toole, Hugh Linstead, Mike Brearley, John Robert Seeley, Michael Apted, Julian Barnes, Arthur Rackham, Theodore Hardy, Edwin Samuel Montagu, George Newnes, Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee, Leo Genn, John Cordle, Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Denis Norden, Joseph Oscar Irwin, Anthony Julius, Aaron Barschak, Luke Mcshane, Harold Rosenthal, Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon, Jim Cousins, Steven Isserlis, Philip Dawid, Geoffrey Finsberg, Maurice Wohl, David Lindo Alexander, William Huggins, List of Old Citizens, Israel Gollancz, Henry Charles Beeching, Peter Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken, Stanley Holmes, 1st Baron Dovercourt, Thomas Walker Arnold, Anthony Thiselton, David Malcolm Lewis, Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, Edward Garnett, Bramwell Booth, Suma Chakrabarti, Ernest Lough, Derek Taunt, George Warrington Steevens, Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers, Walter Godfrey Whittingham, Sidney Lee, Walter Raleigh, Charles Edward Montague, Isaac Snowman, David Allan Walker, Lewis Richard Farnell, Robert Chancellor Nesbitt, James Gilliland Simpson, Harold Berridge, Vibert Jackson, William Soulsby, Michael Nicholas, Barnett Abrahams, Wilfrid Short, John Davis, Donald Llewellyn Redding, Arthur Henry Bullen, William Anderson, Edward Divers, Howard Pearce, Henry Guppy, Ralph Knott, Joseph Hiam Levy, Alfred Sutro, Seymour Sharkey, Robert Seymour Conway, Mark Croucher, Charles Stone, David Blundy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 352. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 22 December 2002), b...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=160965 ... Read more

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What if there existed a world consisting of only two spatial dimensions? This mind-bending supposition is the jumping-off point for one of literature's most celebrated oddities: the 1884 novella *Flatland*, one of the earliest instances of modern speculative fiction, and perhaps the only instance of mathematical satire. In Flatland, a lowly square, whose polygonal betters exhibit more sides, discovers pathways to other worlds where, alas, thinking is as rigidly defined as in his own. Class structures, the position of women (who are but mere lines), and the stolidness of religious and political leaders are sent up with chilly aplomb. Beloved by fans of science fiction, students of dimensional physics, and readers of Victorian literature, this belongs on the shelf of any serious home library. ... Read more