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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

Gelesen von Linda Olsen Fitak

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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. (4 hr 31 min)

Chapters

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

12:02

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Of the Nature of Flatland

5:55

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Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland

7:00

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Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland

12:00

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Concerning the Women

16:53

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Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another

15:50

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Of Recognition by Sight

15:44

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Concerning Irregular Figures

10:59

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Of the Ancient Practice of Painting

9:04

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Of the Universal Colour Bill

10:58

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Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition

13:11

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Concerning Our Priests

8:36

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Of the Doctrine of Our Priests

14:35

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How I had a Vision of Lineland

13:12

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How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland

13:32

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Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland

9:13

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

20:54

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

6:08

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How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there

12:02

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How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire m…

17:44

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How the Sphere encouraged me in a vision

8:13

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How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with wh…

6:33

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

10:44

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