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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

English· 04:31:02· 23 chapters
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.

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND REVISED EDITION, 1884, BY THE EDITOR

    12:02
  2. Chapter 2

    Of the Nature of Flatland

    05:55
  3. Chapter 3

    Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland

    07:00
  4. Chapter 4

    Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland

    12:00
  5. Chapter 5

    Concerning the Women

    16:53
  6. Chapter 6

    Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another

    15:50
  7. Chapter 7

    Of Recognition by Sight

    15:44
  8. Chapter 8

    Concerning Irregular Figures

    10:59
  9. Chapter 9

    Of the Ancient Practice of Painting

    09:04
  10. Chapter 10

    Of the Universal Colour Bill

    10:58
  11. Chapter 11

    Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition

    13:11
  12. Chapter 12

    Concerning Our Priests

    08:36
  13. Chapter 13

    Of the Doctrine of Our Priests

    14:35
  14. Chapter 14

    How I had a Vision of Lineland

    13:12
  15. Chapter 15

    How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland

    13:32
  16. Chapter 16

    Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland

    09:13
  17. Chapter 17

    How the Stranger Vainly Endeavored to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland

    20:54
  18. Chapter 18

    How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds

    06:08
  19. Chapter 19

    How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there

    12:02
  20. Chapter 20

    How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire more; and what came of it

    17:44
  21. Chapter 21

    How the Sphere encouraged me in a vision

    08:13
  22. Chapter 22

    How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success

    06:33
  23. Chapter 23

    How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result

    10:44