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100 1 _aImmermann, Karl Leberecht,
_d1796-1840
245 1 0 _aMünchhausen unter den Ziegen
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-25
508 _aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Münchhausen unter den Ziegen" by Karl Leberecht Immermann is a satirical novella written in the early 19th century. It follows the fantastical childhood of Münchhausen, whose misadventures on Mount Helicon and later in Holland lampoon moral crusades, fashionable philanthropy, and cultivated “good taste,” all in a playful, mock-heroic tone. The opening of the story finds the precocious child carried in his father’s coat pocket from Germany toward Thessaloniki, escaping just as a lammergeier snatches him—only for a cool English sportsman to shoot the bird and abandon him. Thirst drives the boy to the Hippocrene, which turns him into a compulsive poet and soon into the protegé of a herd of kindly wild goats on Helicon. As he adapts to their life—running on all fours, nibbling grass, even ruminating—he realizes with alarm he is becoming a young buck. Immermann then sketches a sharp satire of the goats’ philanthropic mothers and their mates’ moral-improvement club, culminating in a farcical attempt to “reform” a dung beetle and a blowfly and marry them off, which collapses the moment instinct calls. In the chaos that follows, the boy dreads being handed over to the males for further “education,” when a Dutch rentier, grimly completing a doctor-prescribed straight-line journey, arrives and sits to “view nature,” setting up the next turn of the tale. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cFrankfurt: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt A.-G., 1920
653 _aGerman fiction -- 19th century
700 1 _aPoppe, Georg,
_d1883-1963
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77772
999 _c118492
_d118492