The Project Gutenberg eBook of Metropolis
Title: Metropolis
Author: Thea von Harbou
Illustrator: Jack Gaughan
Release date: May 29, 2024 [eBook #73727]
Most recently updated: July 15, 2024
Language: English
Original publication: New York, NY: Ace Books, 1927
Credits: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
METROPOLIS
By Thea von Harbou
ace books
A Division of Charter Communications Inc.
1120 Avenue of the Americas
New York, N.Y. 10036
This Ace edition follows the text of the first English
edition, originally published in 1927.
Title-page design by Jack Gaughan.
Printed in U.S.A.
THE WORLD OF 2026 A.D.
Metropolis is a classic of science-fiction which created an impact on the literary world which reverberates to this day. Its dramatic presentation of the city-world of the next century stirred the minds of readers with an unforgettable vision of a metropolis grown to Gargantuan proportions, of humanity fighting to keep its soul against the monster world of machinery, robots, and complexity that had been spawned in our own century. The book inspired a movie which is possibly the best science-fiction film ever made.
This book is not of to-day or of the future.
It tells of no place.
It serves no cause, party or class.
It has a moral which grows on the pillar of understanding: “The mediator between brain and muscle must be the Heart.”
—T. vH.