Flatland [Audiobook] download free by Edwin Abbott
- Listen audiobook: Flatland
- Author: Edwin Abbott
- Release date: 1999/10/15
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780140435313
- Rating: 9.52 of 10
- Votes: 145
- Review by: Kannon Conn
- Review rating: 7.13 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/23
- Duration: 1H49M36S in 256 kbps (28.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MP4, WMA, WAV, AU, MPEG4, FLAC (compression TZO, GZ, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 144
- Includes a PDF summary of 12 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 9M31S (2.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A 'romance of many dimensions' that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory, the Penguin Classics edition of Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland introduction by Alan Lightman.A work that continues to pose provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. The amiable narrator, A Square, provides an overview of this fantastic world - its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his world view is forever shattered.Written more than a century ago, Flatland conceals within its brilliant parody of Victorian society speculations about the universe that resonate in Einstein's theory of relativity as well as the current 'string-theory' of nature.Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926) was a leading scholar and theologian of the Victorian era.If you enjoyed Flatland you may like H.G. Wells's The Sleeper Awakes, also available in Penguin Classics.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Relativity Physics, Classic Science Fiction, Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Science Fiction, Classic Books & Novels, Contemporary Fiction
- Download servers: 4Shared, SecureSlice, FreakShare, Microsoft OneDrive, MEGA. Compressed in TZO, GZ, RAR, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 9.01 USD
- Dimensions: 130x197x10mm
- Weight: 121g
- Printed by: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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