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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: And Other Sketches

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: And Other Sketches - Paperback

by Mark Twain
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mark TwainPublish date:1887-01-01Pages:202
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cosimo ClassicsISBN-13:9781646793587ISBN-10:1646793587UPC:9781646793587Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), HumorousSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SCFDRY3K4V

"By Mark Twain's story of the Frog, he scaled the heights of popularity at a single jump, and won for himself the sobriquet of The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope."

-John Paul, editor, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1869)


The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a short story by Mark Twain, originally published weekly in The Saturday Press in 1865, which brought him his first great success. It is a humoristic story about a gambler, Jim Smiley, who trained a frog named Daniel Webster to jump and then won money by betting on the frog.


This edition of Twain's first book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And Other Sketches (1867), is an entertaining collection of 27 stories, including the title story.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cosimo ClassicsISBN-13:9781646793587ISBN-10:1646793587UPC:9781646793587Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), HumorousSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SCFDRY3K4V
Twain, Mark: - MARK TWAIN (1835-1910), pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer who became one of America's greatest and most popular writers. Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, the state which influenced much of his writing. Twain acquired fame for his travel stories such as Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his boyhood adventure novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
Publisher: Cosimo Classics

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