The cultural background is discussed in some of the forwards to the text.
Flatland was certainly intended as a political satire of the "Gulliver's
Travels" style, so the messages are on many different levels of
consciouness. :)
There is a printed version from Dover that is a super bargain at $1.00...
That's right!!! $1.00.
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