Jumping Frog, The

By Twain, Mark

Book Id: WPLBN0002952757
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File Size: 31.31 MB
Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Jumping Frog, The
Author:	Twain, Mark
Volume:
Language:	Multiple
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Languages
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Jumping Frog, The
Historic Publication Date:	1903
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Twain, B. M. (1903). Jumping Frog, The. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Jim Smiley and His 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. Upon discovering a French translation of this story, Twain re-translated the story, word for word and keeping the French grammar structure, back into English. He then published all three versions under the title The Jumping Frog: In English, Then in French, and Then Clawed Back Into A Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil.

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Fiction, Languages, Humor, Short stories, Essay/Short nonfiction