The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - Softcover

Samuel L. Clemens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0910584028 ISBN 13: 9780910584029

Publisher: Filter Press, 1965

Synopsis

Mark Twain's story of the Jumping Frog was first published in the New York Saturday Press in November, 1865. This version is from an 1875 edition of Twain's hilarious story and icludes both the original story and one supposedly "rescued" from a translation into French. Contains the original illustrations plus contemporary wood engravings depicting mining life.

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Review:

Short story by Mark Twain, first published in The Saturday Press in 1865. The narrator of the story, who is searching for a Reverend Leonidas Smiley, visits the long-winded Simon Wheeler, a miner, in hopes of learning his whereabouts. Wheeler instead relates an elaborate story of a different man named Jim Smiley who was a compulsive and imaginative gambler and who once spent three months training a frog named Daniel Webster to jump and then won money by betting on the frog. The gambler, Wheeler reveals, was eventually duped by a quick-thinking stranger. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Filter Press
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0910584028
• ISBN 13: 9780910584029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32