[PDF] The Surprising Adventures Of Baron Munchausen eBook

Author : Rudolph Erich Raspe
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Fiction
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Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen, was an actual baron living in 18th-century Hanover famous for entertaining his guests with outrageously-embellished tales of his wartime exploits—so much so that his nickname in German is Lügenbaron, or “Baron of Lies.” When Rudolph Eric Raspe, a writer and scientist living in England, heard of the Baron’s tales, he wrote his own versions centered around a fictional Baron Munchausen. While the real Baron wasn’t amused to have his name attached to a silly character famous for his bald-faced lies, Raspe’s tales became hugely popular, reprinted for hundreds of years and illustrated just as many times. These very short tales were originally intended as contemporary satire, but their outrageous silliness is still entertaining today.

Author : Rudolf Erich Raspe
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
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The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a collection of stories about a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book. The protagonist is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen, who fought for the Russian Empire in the Russo-Turkish War of 1735–1739 and, after it, became famous for telling outrageous tall tales based on his military career. The author of this book adapted them anonymously into a literary form that was doomed to become of the most famous books in the world's history.

Author : Rudolph Raspe
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482557022

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The stories about Münchhausen were first collected and published by an anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published in London in 1785, by Rudolph Erich Raspe, as Baron Munchhausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, also called The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen.

Author : Rudolf Erich Raspe
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781421989068

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I had nothing like an offensive weapon in my hands but the silver hatchet, which is the badge of the Sultan's gardeners and farmers. I threw it at the robbers, with an intention to frighten them away, and set the poor bee at liberty; but, by an unlucky turn of my arm, it flew upwards, and continued rising till it reached the moon. How should I recover it? how fetch it down again?

Author : Rudolf Erich Raspe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2023-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368622641

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Reproduction of the original.

Author : Rudolf Erich Raspe
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Tall tales
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Baron Munchausen's boastful account of his amazing adventures as he travels around the world.

Author : Terry Gilliam
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1782111077

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Now is probably as good a time as any to make a full confession. . . Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - not to mention co-founder of Monty Python's Flying Circus - recalls his extraordinary life so far. Featuring a cast of amazing supporting characters, including George Harrison, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Uma Thurman, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger and all of the fellow Pythons, Gilliamesque is a rollercoaster ride through late twentieth century popular culture. Packed with never-before-seen artwork, photographs and commentary.