Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752523328
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Oxford Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780199733491
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 14176

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Presents facsimile first editions of Twain's works that include all original illustrations. Each volume contains introductions by literary heavyweights including Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley, among others.

Author: Bob Blaisdell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486794296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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The great American humorist first came to national attention with the 1865 publication of this tall tale of a gambler and his high-jumping frog. Includes French translation and Twain's amusing re-translation.

Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: The Creative Company
ISBN: 9781583415818
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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A man who loves to place bets acquires a remarkable frog, which he claims can out jump any other frog in the county.

Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849675289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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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.

Author: Mark Mark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention.[1] The story has also been published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (its original title) and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road."

Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789738786127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736815182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: Illustrated by Mark Twain. Mark Twain aka Samuel LClemens (1835–1910) was an American author and humorist. Written in 1865, this short story by Mark Twain was an overnight success and reprinted all over the country. In fact, this is the piece of writing that launched Mark Twain into fame. "The Notorious Jumping Frog" focuses on a narrator from the East suffering through a Western man's tall tale about a jumping frog. In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Twain describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road."