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11 janvier 2013
- handle: 10670/1.3sdoi9
- isbn: 9781906924102
- eisbn: 9781906924119
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folktales tales Germany tradition fiction moral tales didactic tales religious tales historical tales First World War Franco-Prussian War Thirty Years War German history Literature LIT009000 DSYSujets proches
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David Blamires, « 2. A World of Discovery: Joachim Heinrich Campe », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.3sdoi9
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The stories of Munchausen reflect the excitement and wonderment of people at the end of a century in which new discoveries and inventions were being made all the time. This wonderment, however, was transposed into a fantasy world of recent history and geographical and technological exploration where surprise and satirical amusement were the order of the day. Only three years after Munchausen was first published in English a quite different sort of German book reflecting the fascination of wor...