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Flatland

Edwin A. Abbott

Novelsabout 4 hours of listening

A square is pulled out of his reality by a sphere, and shown the meaning of three dimensions.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Dedication
  3. Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884
  4. Flatland
  5. Part I: This World
  6. I: Of the Nature of Flatland
  7. II: Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
  8. III: Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
  9. IV: Concerning the Women
  10. V: Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another
  11. VI: Of Recognition by Sight
  12. VII: Concerning Irregular Figures
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  1. VIII: Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
  2. IX: Of the Universal Colour Bill
  3. X: Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
  4. XI: Concerning Our Priests
  5. XII: Of the Doctrine of Our Priests
  6. Part II: Other Worlds
  7. XIII: How I Had a Vision of Lineland
  8. XIV: How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland
  9. XV: Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
  10. XVI: How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland
  11. XVII: How the Sphere, Having in Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds
  12. XVIII: How I Came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There
  13. XIX: How, Though the Sphere Showed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desired More; and What Came of It
  14. XX: How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision
  15. XXI: How I Tried to Teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to My Grandson, and with What Success
  16. XXII: How I Then Tried to Diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by Other Means, and of the Result
  17. Endnotes
  18. List of Illustrations
  19. Colophon
  20. Uncopyright

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