Bruno Hans Bürgel 4 hr 15 min read

The whimsical Doctor Ulebuhle tells children strange stories, of a sunken city, a day on the Moon, the end of the world, a diamond and its brothers.

Bruno H. Bürgel's 1920 collection, by a self-taught German astronomer-writer, blends science, wonder, and fairy tale into charming stories for the young. Warm, imaginative, gently instructive. Read it for a delightful set of science-flavored fables from a beloved popularizer of the stars.

In its time

Published in 1920, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 15 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Edmund Fürst