Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Edwin A. Abbott

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
December 19 1838
Died
1111 10 19261926
From Biography Base:

Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire Flatland .

He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honours in classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college. In 1862 he took orders. After holding masterships at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Clifton College, he succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of twenty-six. He was Hulsean lecturer in 1876.

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 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 , Onesimus , and Sitanus .

More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk , Philomythus , his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman , and his article "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world. He also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles , Johannine Vocabulary , Johannine Grammar . Flatland was published in 1884.

Sources that say he is the brother of Evelyn Abbott , who was a well-known tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, and author of a scholarly history of Greece, are in error.

Edwin A. Abbott

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
December 19 1838
Died
1111 10 19261926
From Biography Base:

Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire Flatland .

He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honours in classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college. In 1862 he took orders. After holding masterships at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Clifton College, he succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of twenty-six. He was Hulsean lecturer in 1876.

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 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 , Onesimus , and Sitanus .

More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk , Philomythus , his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman , and his article "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world. He also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles , Johannine Vocabulary , Johannine Grammar . Flatland was published in 1884.

Sources that say he is the brother of Evelyn Abbott , who was a well-known tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, and author of a scholarly history of Greece, are in error.

Books from Edwin A. Abbott

Flatland / Sphereland

4/5 ( ratings)

How To Write Clearly

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions/The Disciples Trilogy/The Message of the Son of Man (Edwin Abbott Premium Collection/Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 1630)

4/5 ( ratings)

Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Post-Apocalyptic Tales: The War of the Worlds, Anthem, Space Viking, ... America, A Traveler in Time, The Guardians…

3.8/5 ( ratings)

A Shakespearian Grammar: An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the Differences between Elizabethan & Modern English

3.6/5 ( ratings)

59 Sci-Fi Classics for the Ages

4/5 ( ratings)

Sci-Fi Box Set: 140+ Dystopian Novels, Novels Space Adventures, Lost World Classics & Apocalyptic Tales: The War of the Worlds, The Outlaws of Mars, The ... A Martian Odyssey, A Columbus of Space…

4/5 ( ratings)

SCI-FI Boxed Set: 150+: Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Post-Apocalyptic Tales: The War of the Worlds, Anthem, Space ... America, A Traveler ... The Guardians…

3.7/5 ( ratings)

SCI-FI Boxed Set: 150+.: Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Post-Apocalyptic Tales: The War of the Worlds, Anthem, Space ... America, A Traveler in Time, The Guardians…

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Greatest Sci-Fi Classics: Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Time Machine, The War of The Worlds, Frankenstein, The Lost World, Iron Heel, The ... and Mr Hyde, Lord of the World, Herland…

4.7/5 ( ratings)

St. Thomas of Canterbury: His Death and Miracles, Volume 2

3/5 ( ratings)

Tauba Auerbach: Folds

4/5 ( ratings)

Flatland & Twelve Years A Slave Narrative Of Solomon Northup

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Science Fiction Collection. 15+ Sci-Fi Books: Ray Bradbury The Monster Maker, Rocket Summer, Isaac Asimov Youth, E.M. Forster Machine Stops, G. Orwell 1984 and others

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The London Series of English Classics; Bacon's Essays, with Introduction, Notes and Index. In Two Volumes, Vol. I

4/5 ( ratings)

English Lessons for English People

3/5 ( ratings)

Smelly Socks Joke Book

3/5 ( ratings)

Science Fiction Ultimate Box Set: 170+ Dystopian Novels, Space Adventures, Lost World Classics & Apocalyptic Tales: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, ... Brave New World, Herland, Looking Backward…

5/5 ( ratings)

33 Masterpieces of Philosophy and Science to Read Before You Die (Illustrated): Utopia, The Meditations, The Art of War, The Kama Sutra, Candide

3/5 ( ratings)

The Kernel and the Husk

5/5 ( ratings)
loader