大都会(Metropolis )简介：

“Metropolis” is the prophetic science-fiction novel that inspired Fritz Lang’s iconic silent-movie masterpiece. A magical, visionary page-turner so rich and inventive as to defy description, Thea von Harbou’s “Metropolis” is one science-fiction classic everyone should experience.

“Metropolis” paints a stunning picture of the city of the future. At the top of the social pyramid, those who own the city’s buildings and businesses live idyllic lives devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; while at its bottom are the workers who live a hellish existence, laboring like robots in its factories, dwelling with their gaunt, stunted children in the everlasting gloom of underground barracks.

Fighting to right these inequities are two lovers: Freder, son of the master and builder of Metropolis, who is shocked to social conscience when he glimpses the squalor and hopelessness amid which his father’s workers live; and Maria, who encourages the workers to stand united for their rights while following a path of non-violent resistance.

Filled with unforgettable images from Joh Fredersen’s headquarters, the New Tower of Babel, rearing high above the gleaming spires of Metropolis to the pleasure city, Yoshiwara, whose name flares across the skies to the factories where workers slave before machines that resemble a pantheon of the world's gods to the evil robotrix, Parody, with the eyes of a Madonna and lips of deadly sin, whose carnal dance inspires the workers to revolt.

“Metropolis” — an unforgettable, must-read book.