John Kendrick Bangs 2 hr 3 min read

The immortal liar Baron Munchausen returns, now recounting his outrageous adventures beyond the Styx to a reporter from the Gehenna Gazette, for the delight of children everywhere.

John Kendrick Bangs's 1901 book gives the great teller of tall tales a witty, child-friendly afterlife, illustrated by Peter Newell. Charming, absurd, delightful. Read it for a genial update of the world's grandest whoppers, from a master of comic fantasy.

In its time

Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 3 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Peter Newell