Flatland

Now playing

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

Read by Linda Olsen Fitak

Chapters (23)

1. 1PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND REVISED EDITION, 1884, BY THE EDITOR12:02
2. 2Of the Nature of Flatland5:55
3. 3Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland7:00
4. 4Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland12:00
5. 5Concerning the Women16:53
6. 6Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another15:50
7. 7Of Recognition by Sight15:44
8. 8Concerning Irregular Figures10:59
9. 9Of the Ancient Practice of Painting9:04
10. 10Of the Universal Colour Bill10:58
11. 11Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition13:11
12. 12Concerning Our Priests8:36
13. 13Of the Doctrine of Our Priests14:35
14. 14How I had a Vision of Lineland13:12
15. 15How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland13:32
16. 16Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland9:13
17. 17How the Stranger Vainly Endeavored to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland20:54
18. 18How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds6:08
19. 19How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there12:02
20. 20How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire more; and what came of it17:44
21. 21How the Sphere encouraged me in a vision8:13
22. 22How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success6:33
23. 23How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result10:44