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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
R. E. Raspe

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Etext prepared by Emma Dudding, emma_302@hotmail.com
Dagny, dagnyj@hotmail.com
and John Bickers, jbickers@ihug.co.nz 

THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
By Rudolph Erich Raspe 

Published in 1895. 

INTRODUCTION 

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.  Of

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