Fantasy

The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

by Rudolf Erich Raspe

Rudolf Erich Raspe, a German scholar who had fled to England after taking coins and gems from the collection he kept, published the first of these tall tales in English in 1785. He put them into the mouth of a real baron, who was known for telling stories at table about his service against the Turks. The Baron rides a cannonball, pulls himself out of a bog by his own hair, and goes to the Moon, and others added to the book with every edition.

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Reading time

About 3 hr 30 min

Where to find it

Brobdingnag

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #3154. In the public domain in the United States.