Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

Genre(s): Humorous Fiction, Satire, Published 1800 -1900

Narrators: Linda Olsen Fitak, Aaron White

Number of Chapters: 23

Length: 04 hours and 31 minutes

Language: English

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.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND REVISED EDITION, 1884, BY THE EDITOR (Linda Olsen Fitak)

Of the Nature of Flatland (Linda Olsen Fitak)

Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland (Linda Olsen Fitak)

Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland (Linda Olsen Fitak)

Concerning the Women (Linda Olsen Fitak)

Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another (Linda Olsen Fitak)

Of Recognition by Sight (Linda Olsen Fitak)

Concerning Irregular Figures (Linda Olsen Fitak)

Of the Ancient Practice of Painting (Linda Olsen Fitak)

Of the Universal Colour Bill (Linda Olsen Fitak)

Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition (Linda Olsen Fitak)

Concerning Our Priests (Linda Olsen Fitak)

Of the Doctrine of Our Priests (Linda Olsen Fitak)

How I had a Vision of Lineland (Linda Olsen Fitak)

How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland (Aaron White)

Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland (Aaron White)

How the Stranger Vainly Endeavored to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland (Aaron White)

How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds (Aaron White)

How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there (Aaron White)

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

How the Sphere encouraged me in a vision (Aaron White)

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

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

The audiobook Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2) falls under the genres of Humorous Fiction, Satire, Published 1800 -1900. It is written by Edwin Abbott Abbott.

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