W. G. Worfel 2 hr 20 min read

A twentieth-century Munchausen recounts his own outrageous, danger-fraught adventures, culminating in his winning the hand of a glorious creature, in the grand tall-tale tradition.

W. G. Worfel's 1904 book is a modern American update of the immortal Baron Munchausen's whoppers. Playful, absurd, illustrated period fantasy. Read it for a genial romp of comic exaggeration and impossible exploits, in the spirit of the greatest of liars.

In its time

Published in 1904, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 20 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Richard Harvey Curtis