Baron Münchausen’s Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia | Baron Münchausen’s Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia

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Author: Rudolf Erich Raspe
First Published: 1781
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Farce
Time of Work: Eighteenth century
Setting: Russia and many other parts of the world
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

Hieronymus, Baron Münchausen (MEWNK-how-zehn), a German nobleman who narrates an account of his journey to Russia and the adventures that followed his acceptance of a commission in the Russian army, in whose ranks he fought against the Turks. The baron explains that while he was en route to Russia, he had several unlikely experiences, and that after he joined the army, his misadventures continued, reaching a climax when he reached the moon by climbing a giant beanstalk and then had to improvise a means of returning to Earth. In the original version of his...

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