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 in English by LibriVox Volunteers. In Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions—written by Edwin Abbott Abbott—readers are presented with a question. What if the world were flat? Well and truly flat, that is, with figures in place of humans as we would think of them. It takes this question, and pushes it further, asking about the natures of people, and society, as well as angles, lines, and the dimensions of space itself. It takes this question, and uses it to deliver insightfully political satire, and a surprising amount of mathematical education. - Summary by FlamboyantOtter

Recording facts

• Recording title: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
• Author credits: Edwin Abbott Abbott
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 3:16:19

Catalogue topics

• satire
• politics
• adventure
• science
• mathematics
• society
• war
• geometry

Track guide

1. 00 - PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND REVISED EDITION, 1884. BY THE EDITOR — 10:27
2. 01 - Dedication, and Of the Nature of Flatland — 5:57
3. 02 - Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland — 6:13
4. 03 - Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland — 10:23
5. 04 - Concerning the Women — 14:38
6. 05 - Of our Methods of Recognizing one another — 13:47
7. 06 - Of Recognition by Sight — 13:23
8. 07 - Concerning Irregular Figures — 6:27
9. 08 - Of the Ancient Practice of Painting — 5:26
10. 09 - Of the Universal Colour Bill — 6:58
11. 10 - Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition — 8:03
12. 11 - Concerning our Priests — 5:26
13. 12 - Of the Doctrine of our Priests — 9:12
14. 13 - How I had a Vision of Lineland — 8:09
15. 14 - How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland — 8:57
16. 15 - Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland — 6:10
17. 16 - How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland — 13:47
18. 17 - How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds — 4:24
19. 18 - How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there — 8:17
20. 19 - How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire more; and what came of it — 11:58
21. 20 - How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision — 5:40
22. 21 - How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success — 4:55
23. 22 - How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result — 7:42

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