Flatland
A square explains his two-dimensional world, then meets a sphere and loses his mind. Still the best intuition pump for higher dimensions.
- Listening time
- about 3 h 36 min
- Length
- 33,334 words
- First published
- 1884
- Public domain
- the author died in 1926
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 193 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
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Free. Open the app, go to Discover, find the title and tap Get. It narrates on your device in the voice you choose, your own included. View the edition at standardebooks.org.
How it begins.
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other Figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows—only hard and with luminous edges—and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said “my universe”: but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things.
Flatland · Edwin A. Abbott · 1884
- SarahStandardAmerican · female · the free engine0:29
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On the same shelf: Before It Was a Genre
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