Flatland

Edwin Abbott Abbott

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"Flatland" by Edwin Abbott Abbott. Public domain in the United States. Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201. Text and audio edition: LivingBooks.

Chapters

  1. 1Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884.
  2. 2Section 1. Of the Nature of Flatland
  3. 3Section 2. Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
  4. 4Section 3. Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
  5. 5Section 4. Concerning the Women
  6. 6Section 5. Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
  7. 7Section 6. Of Recognition by Sight
  8. 8Section 7. Concerning Irregular Figures
  9. 9Section 8. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
  10. 10Section 9. Of the Universal Colour Bill
  11. 11Section 10. Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
  12. 12Section 11. Concerning our Priests
  13. 13Section 12. Of the Doctrine of our Priests
  14. 14Section 13. How I had a Vision of Lineland
  15. 15Section 14. How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
  16. 16Section 15. Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
  17. 17Section 16. How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me
  18. 18Section 17. How the Sphere, having in vain tried words,
  19. 19Section 18. How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
  20. 20Section 19. How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries
  21. 21Section 20. How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
  22. 22Section 21. How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions
  23. 23Section 22. How I then tried to diffuse the Theory