The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

分类: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Classics(经典读物),
品牌: Rudolf Erich Raspe
基本信息出版社:Melville House (2012年6月26日)丛书名:Neversink平装:208页正文语种:英语ISBN:1612191231条形码:9781612191232商品重量:367 gASIN:1612191231您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介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 Munchausenunleashed the quintessential madman upon the Age of Enlightenment—and it remains the tallest of tall tales to this day.作者简介Rudolph Erich Raspe(1736–1794) was a librarian, scientist, and sometime gemstone thief. After a botched confidence scheme, Raspe fled Germany for England, where he wrote and anonymously publishedThe Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Written in English, the work remained obscure until translated into German by Gottfried August Bürger, to whom it was attributed. After Raspe’s death, the true author was revealed.