The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County - Softcover

Twain, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1478377771 ISBN 13: 9781478377771

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County BY Mark Twain [ZHINGOORA BOOKS]

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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: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1478377771
• ISBN 13: 9781478377771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 50