The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

213 pp. Reproductions of 160 engravings by Gustave Dore. "The story is an amusing caricature of the life and adventures of misadventures of the Baron of Munchausen." "Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia is a 1785 novel about a fictional German nobleman written by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe.[1][2][3] The lead character Baron Munchausen is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720–1797, German pronunciation: ['m?nç(h)a?z?n]), the fictionalized character was created by Rudolf Erich Raspe.[4] The novel was the basis of the 1988 film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.[5]"