A review by balletbookworm
The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe

4.0

Not a solid four stars but, as explained in the Afterword, only Chapters 2-6 (about 34pp) in the edition reprinted by Melville House are the original Munchausen stories by Raspe. The rest are the work of hack writers expanding on the form of Voyages Imaginaires for profit. As such they're kind of terrible and a sad pastiche of Swift's satire.

But those original 34 pages are such wonderful tall tales that they're worth the rest of the book (as is the tale of Raspe's life).