Baron Münchausen’s Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudolf Erich Raspe
- First Published: 1781
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Picaresque
- Time of Work: Eighteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction, Farce
- Subjects: Blizzards, North America or North Americans, Voyages, France or French people, Surrealism, Europe or Europeans, Farms, farmers, or farming, Eighteenth century, Storytelling, Egypt or Egyptians, Adventure, Heroes or heroism, Germany or German people, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Poland or Polish people, Russia or Russian people, Great Britain, Moon or moons, Nobility, Turkey or Turkish people, Fables, Braggarts
- Locales: England, Egypt, Germany, Marseilles, France, Russia, Moon, North America, Poland, East Indies, Lithuania, Turkey
Places Discussed
*Moon. The baron twice visits the Moon. In chapter 6 he tries to recover a silver hatchet from the Moon, which he reaches by climbing up quick-growing turkey-beans that he plants. On the Moon, everything is silvery bright, but the baron finds the hatchet in a heap of hay and straw, which he plaits into a rope for his return to Earth. His second trip, in chapter 18, is aboard a sailing-ship, lifted into the sky by a hurricane. The Moon now is like Earth, with cities, trees, mountains, rivers, and seas, where all creatures are extraordinarily large. The Moon’s...
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