TY - BOOK AU - Raspe,Rudolf Erich TI - The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen AV - PN PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Humorous stories KW - Voyages and travels -- Fiction KW - Voyages, Imaginary -- Fiction KW - Tall tales N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Munchausen; Release date is 2006-04-06; Produced by Emma Dudding; Dagny; John Bickers; David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by Rudolf Erich Raspe is a book published in 1785. This comedic work features impossible tales narrated by a fictional German nobleman loosely based on a real baron known for telling outrageous stories. The Baron recounts absurd exploits including riding on a cannonball, battling a giant crocodile, and traveling to the Moon. Through wildly exaggerated adventures as a sportsman, soldier, and traveler, the stories satirize tall tales and social pretensions while celebrating the art of outlandish storytelling. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3154 ER -