Rudolf Erich Raspe

Features Baron Munchausen's absurd adventures. This book tells how he turned a wolf inside out in Russia, rode on a Turkish cannon ball, danced a hornpipe in the stomach of large fish which had swallowed him alive, mended his horse which had been severed in two by a portcullis, and lent his friend General Elliot a hand at the siege of Gibraltar.

The restored, unbowdlerized text of Raspe's slapstick travel epic featuring the classic illustrations from Strang & Clark (1895) No one has journeyed to as many foreign lands as Baron von Munchausen. Nor, when it comes time to fire a cannon, will you find anyone more accurate. The comfort of courtly life is as natural to him as the harshest polar desert. On the subject of politics and science he has no equal. And all discussion of the moon must start and stop with the only man who has ever been there. His feats of prowess are famed the world over. Who else could leap a hedgerow with a carriage and horse on their back? No one. And then of course there are the bears. . . My god the poor bears Written at a time when science was replacing religion, and explorers were mapping the globe, and in our own time made into an acclaimed movie by Terry Gilliam, "The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen" unleashed the quintessential madman upon the Age of Enlightenment--and it remains the tallest of tall tales to this day.

Barona Mjunkhauzena znajut vo vsjom mire - on proslavilsja rasskazami o svoikh neobyknovennykh prikljuchenijakh. Soglasites, vrjad li komu eschjo udastsja podzhech porokh iskrami iz glaz ili zabratsja po steblju boba na Lunu! A kto ne pomnit ego istorij o poljote na jadre ili o dereve na rogakh olenja, kotoroe vyroslo iz vishnjovoj kostochki?! Nesmotrja na vsju ikh nepravdopodobnost, my tem ne menee v nikh verim. Kak veril v nikh sam baron Mjunkhauzen, "samyj pravdivyj chelovek na zemle"! Dlja srednego shkolnogo vozrasta.