Skip to content

Search
Timeline
Map
Graph
Threads
Civilizations
Eras
Random

A living digital encyclopedia of human civilization. Begin anywhere; follow the threads.

¶ Browse

Threads
Civilizations
Eras
Timeline
Map
Graph
Random entry
About

¶ Sources & licensing

Adapted prose from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica — public domain in the United States.
Imagery via Wikimedia Commons; per-image attribution on each entry.

¶ Colophon

Set in EB Garamond and JetBrains Mono. Built on Next.js 16 + Postgres 17 with pgvector + Drizzle ORM, deployed to Vercel atop a Neon Postgres branch.

Source at github.com/chloeilabs/alexandria.

Alexandria · MMXXVIExplicit colophon · 2026

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore · Alexandria

Work

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

Also known as

Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra
Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra
Il segreto della libreria sempre aperta
Цілодобова книгарня пана Пенумбра
חנות הספרים ללא הפסקה של מר פנומברה
کتابفروشی ۲۴ ساعته آقای پنامبرا

archival plate · Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore · placeholder

This entry is a stub. The Library is awakening — a longer account is being written.

Connected to

in languageEnglish

+ 6 further connections to entries not yet ingested