Mr. Munchausen

Mr. Munchausen

Front cover of first edition
Author	John Kendrick Bangs
Illustrator	Peter Newell
Series	Associated Shades
Genre	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Noyes, Platt & Co.
Publication date	1901
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	180
OCLC	644706
LC Class	PZ3.B224 Mrm PS1064.B3
Preceded by	The Enchanted Type-Writer

Mr. Munchausen is a novel by John Kendrick Bangs, written in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. It is the fourth book of Bangs' Associated Shades series.

Title

The book's full title is:

Mr. Munchausen: Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures Beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder, as originally reported for the Sunday Edition of the Gehenna Gazette by its special interviewer the late Mr. Ananias formerly of Jerusalem, and now first transcribed from the columns of that journal by J. K. Bangs

This is a satire of the long book and chapter titles often prevalent in the 18th and 19th centuries, and a reference to the adventures of the original Baron Munchausen. In various library, collectibles, and sales catalogs the long title of the book is usually truncated in various ways.

Publication history

Originally printed by Noyes, Platt & Co., Boston, US, in 1901, it was reprinted by Books for Libraries Press (1969), ISBN 0-8369-3013-4.

References

• Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 40.

External links

• Mr Munchausen public domain audiobook at LibriVox