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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", [1] the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
The critic aggregates Books in the Media and Bookmarks gave the book ratings of 4.14 and 4 out of 5, respectively. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In a review for The New York Times , Claire Messud describes Miller's Circe as "pleasurable," approving of its feminist themes and its "highly psychologized, redemptive and ultimately exculpatory account" of Circe's ...
The Circle is a 2013 dystopian novel written by American author Dave Eggers. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The novel chronicles tech worker Mae Holland as she joins a powerful Internet company. Her initially rewarding experience turns darker.
The "nine dots" puzzle. The puzzle asks to link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen. The nine dots puzzle is a mathematical puzzle whose task is to connect nine squarely arranged points with a pen by four (or fewer) straight lines without lifting the pen or retracing any lines.
On Books in the Media, the book was rated 4.09 out of 5, based on four critic reviews. [9] In the July/August 2021 issue of Bookmarks, the book was scored four out of five. The magazine's critical summary reads: "Still, Great Circle is a smart, curious, and entertaining portrait of a changing 20th century". [10] [11]
[3] The first nine books are available in Germany and France, where the series is known as Magic Circle. It is published in German by Schneiderbuch. [4] The first four books have been published in Castilian Spanish under the series name El Círculo de Fuego, by Editorial Diagonal (Grup 62). [5]
The Paradise Novels is a set of three novels by Ted Dekker, written mostly in 2006, and is part of a larger story called the Books of History Chronicles, along with the Circle Series, Immanuel's Veins, the Beyond the Circle books 1 and 2 (The 49th Mystic and Rise of the Mystics), and The Lost Books.
The book was first published in 2000, one year after Briar's Book concluded the original Circle of Magic quartet in 1999. A review by Janice M. Del Negro for the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books says the book "serves more as set-up than as a well-developed story of its own" and "The characterizations are less richly layered, relying on the previous series to fill in the blanks".