Le avventure del barone di Münchhausen è un romanzo in lingua inglese del 1785 scritto dallo scrittore tedesco Rudolf Erich Raspe.[1][2][3]Il romanzo, pubblicato a Londra con il titolo Baron Munchhausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, narra le incredibili avventure del barone di Münchhausen ed è vagamente ispirato alle storie che raccontava Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen, un vero barone tedesco vissuto nel ...

Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen, was an actual baron living in 18th-century Hanover famous for entertaining his guests with outrageously-embellished tales of his wartime exploits—so much so that his nickname in German is Lügenbaron, or “Baron of Lies.” When Rudolph Eric Raspe, a writer and scientist living in England, heard of the Baron’s tales, he wrote his own versions centered around a fictional Baron Munchausen.While the real Baron wasn’t amus...