The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

ISBN: 9781331134152 出版年：2016 页码：195 Forgotten Books

It is not definitely known who first issued these stories in book form, but it was probably the work of one Rudolph Erich Raspe, a schol arly and versatile author, but a great rogue, who had taken refuge in England from the arm of German law. He swindled Sir John Sinclair as a mining expert, and this exploit suggested his Dousterswivel to Sir Walter Scott. Eventually he died of fever in Donegal.