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This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the protagonist, known simply as "A Square", to deride the Victorian aristocracy and its hierarchies. But the book has retained its value throughout the years for its unique portrayal of a two-dimensional world, and how a Sphere introduces the Square to the incomprehensible possibility of a third dimension. Once the square fully understands the third dimension, he suggests to the Sphere that even a fourth, fifth, or sixth dimension could exist. But the Sphere sends the square back to his two-dimensional world, where he cannot convince anyone of the existence of a three dimensional world. - Summary by Linda Olsen Fitak
Read by Linda Olsen Fitak and Aaron White.
Read by Linda Olsen Fitak and Aaron White.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND REVISED EDITION, 1884, BY THE EDITOR
12:02 - Chapter 2
Of the Nature of Flatland
05:55 - Chapter 3
Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
07:00 - Chapter 4
Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
12:00 - Chapter 5
Concerning the Women
16:53 - Chapter 6
Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another
15:50 - Chapter 7
Of Recognition by Sight
15:44 - Chapter 8
Concerning Irregular Figures
10:59 - Chapter 9
Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
09:04 - Chapter 10
Of the Universal Colour Bill
10:58 - Chapter 11
Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
13:11 - Chapter 12
Concerning Our Priests
08:36 - Chapter 13
Of the Doctrine of Our Priests
14:35 - Chapter 14
How I had a Vision of Lineland
13:12 - Chapter 15
How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland
13:32 - Chapter 16
Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
09:13 - Chapter 17
How the Stranger Vainly Endeavored to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland
20:54 - Chapter 18
How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
06:08 - Chapter 19
How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
12:02 - Chapter 20
How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire more; and what came of it
17:44 - Chapter 21
How the Sphere encouraged me in a vision
08:13 - Chapter 22
How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success
06:33 - Chapter 23
How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
10:44