Jumping Frog, The by Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"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, bac...
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Episodes (5)
La Grenouille Sauteuse du Comté de Calaveras
Jumping Frog, The by Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The Jumping Frog: In English, then in French, then Clawed Back into a Civilized...
Jumping Frog, The by Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Jumping Frog, The by Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The Frog Jumping of the County of Calaveras
Jumping Frog, The by Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story
Jumping Frog, The by Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)