The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (and other sketches) - Softcover

Twain, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3849675289 ISBN 13: 9783849675288

Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag, 2017

Synopsis

James Russell Lowell had already pronounced the "Frog" story "the finest piece of humorous writing yet produced in America." We are sure he would also have bestowed this word of praise upon the remaining stories that make up this small volume, though the title sketch is definitely the redeeming feature of the collection.

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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: Jazzybee Verlag
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 3849675289
• ISBN 13: 9783849675288
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88