The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Rudolf Erich Raspe

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English

Melville House
01 October 2012

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Neversink

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The restored, unbowdlerized text of Raspe's slapstick travel epic featuring the classic illustrations from Strang & Clark (1895)

No one has journeyed to as many foreign lands as Baron von Munchausen. Nor, when it comes time to fire a cannon, will you find anyone more accurate. The comfort of courtly life is as natural to him as the harshest polar desert. On the subject of politics and science he has no equal. And all discussion of the moon must start and stop with the only man who has ever been there. His feats of prowess are famed the world over. Who else could leap a hedgerow with a carriage and horse on their back? No one. And then of course there are the bears. . . My god the poor bears!

Written at a time when science was replacing religion, and explorers were mapping the globe, and in our own time made into an acclaimed movie by Terry Gilliam, The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen unleashed the quintessential madman upon the Age of Enlightenment-and it remains the tallest of tall tales to this day.

By: Rudolf Erich Raspe
Imprint: Melville House
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 277g
ISBN: 9781612191232
ISBN 10: 1612191231
Series: Neversink
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 October 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active