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The adventures of Baron Munchausen

The adventures of Baron Munchausen

Humor Classics Literary Fiction

Rudolf Erich Raspe

Authors: Rudolf Erich Raspe
Print type: BOOK

Description:

It is a curious fact that of that class of literature to which Munchausen belongs, that namely of Voyages Imaginaires, the three great types should have all been created in England. Utopia, Robinson Crusoe, and Gulliver, illustrating respectively the philosophical, the edifying, and the satirical type of fictitious travel, were all written in England, and at the end of the eighteenth century a fourth type, the fantastically mendacious, was evolved in this country.