The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

by Mark Twain

Overview

The short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention.
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." 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780880037075
Publisher:	Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Publication date:	06/16/2022
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	13
File size:	302 KB
Age Range:	7 - 18 Years

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),  known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut

Editorial Reviews

"...Twain is the headwater of American fiction."--Ernest Hemingway

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