Celebrated Jumping Frog ... (Twain - Warbler ed.)

Author: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9781957240930

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

Full title: Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Humorous Tales

This volume gathers eight of Mark Twain’s most-loved humorous stories and features “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country”—the career-making story of a visit by an inveterate gambler to an old mining camp in California’s Gold County. This Warbler Classics edition includes Twain’s 1894 essay “Private History of the ‘Jumping Frog’ Story,” which includes Twain’s “retranslation” from the French, and a detailed biographical timeline.