Flatland

A Romance of Many Dimensions

With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE

(Edwin A. Abbott, 1838-1926)

Title page illustration for Flatland: A romance of many dimensions. A landscape is shown, surrounded by a dot labeled 'No directions, POINTLAND'; a line labeled 'One direction, LINELAND'; a square labeled 'Two directions, FLATLAND'; and a cube labeled 'Three directions, SPACELAND'. Two quotes accompany the illustration, reading 'O day and night, this is wondrous strange', and 'Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk!'