City of Endless Night

City of Endless NightIn Berlin of 2041, millions of people live underground. The city is in a state of perpetual war with the rest of the world, its besieged population locked beneath an impenetrable dome. Strictly rationed food is available only to workers, Christianity is banned, and breeding is governed by eugenics. But a ray of hope descends into the underworld when a young American chemist manages to penetrate the subterranean society in an attempt to rally the

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reproduced directly from a rare original 19th-century edition

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Unabridged republication of the 1978 Dover edition

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how he sawed a girl in half to become twins

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Catalogue of Tools and Implements

The Legend of Ra and the Snake-Bite

when mysteries were judged by the cleverness of their crimes and the resourcefulness of their sleuths