After hearing some of Münchhausen's stories, Raspe adapted them anonymously into literary form, first in German as ephemeral magazine pieces and then in English as the 1785 book, which was first published in Oxford by a bookseller named Smith.
Nakon što je čuo neke od Münchhausenovih priča, Raspe ih je anonimno prilagodio u književni oblik, prvo na njemačkom u časopisima, a zatim na engleskom kao knjigu, koju je prvi put objavio 1785.