Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, credited to Edwin Abbott Abbott, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Abbott Abbott. Read by Ruth Golding. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions." As such, the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, physics and computer science students. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
• Author credits: Edwin Abbott Abbott
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 4:13:33

Catalogue topics

• science fiction
• satire
• mathematics
• geometry
• dimensions

Track guide

1. 1 - Part 1 - Sections 1 to 3 — 22:52
2. 2 - Part 1 - Sections 4 to 5 — 27:49
3. 3 - Part 1 - Sections 6 to 7 — 25:07
4. 4 - Part 1 - Sections 8 to 10 — 29:59
5. 5 - Part 1 - Sections 11 to 12 — 20:25
6. 6 - Part 2 - Sections 13 to 14 — 27:40
7. 7 - Part 2 - Sections 15 to 17 — 35:47
8. 8 - Part 2 - Sections 18 to 20 — 44:23
9. 9 - Part 2 - Sections 21 to 22 — 19:37

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