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2017

Format:	Book
Author:	KrzhizhanovskiiÌ⁶, Sigizmund, 1887-1950, author.
Title:	The return of Munchausen / Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ; translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov.
Publisher, Date:	New York : New York Review Books, 2016.
Description:	xii, 140 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary:	First inspired in the eighteenth century by the tall tales of the real Baron Hieronymus von Münchausen, the legend of Baron Münchausen-as transmitted and transformed by Rudolf Erich Raspe and Gottfried August Bürger-soon eclipsed the fame of his living counterpart and has captivated the European imagination ever since.
Series:	New York Review Books classics New York Review Books classics.
Genre:	Psychological fiction.
Other Author:	Turnbull, Joanne, translator, writer of preface. Formozov, Nikolai.
Other Title:	Vozvrashchenie Mi︠u︡nkhgauzena.. English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:	Every baron has his flights of fancy -- Smoke that roars -- Kant's coeval -- In partes infidelium -- The devil in a droshky -- The theory of improbability -- The hermit of Bodenwerder -- The truth that ducked the man.
LCCN:	2016026846
ISBN:	9781681370286 168137028X
Other Number:	951854746
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Control Number:	627019
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Call Number:	FICTION Krzhizha

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