How long does it take to read Flatland?
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott takes about 2 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 1 minute
An evening's read
First published 1884. 110 pages, about 30,250 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 585 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its hierarchies. A square, who is a resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, dreams of the one-dimensional Lineland. He attempts to convince the monarch of Lineland of the possibility of another dimension, but the monarch cannot see outside the line. The square is then visited himself by a Sphere from three-dimensional Spaceland, who must show the square Spaceland before he can conceive it. As more dimensions enter the scene, the story's discussion of fixed thought and the kind of inhuman action which accompanies it intensifies.
Subjects: Fourth dimension, Fiction, general, Denkbeeldige landen, Film and video adaptations, Meetkunde, Science Fiction
