The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (with original

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (with original illustrations)

This is Twainâ€™s most famous short story; Jim Smileyâ€™s Frog is familiar to readers all over the world. Its appearance in the â€œSaturday Pressâ€ newspaper in 1865 brought Twain nation-wide attention. This compilation includes the original â€œJumping Frogâ€ tale, the French translation published in the â€œRevue des Deux Mondesâ€ in 1872, and Twain's hilarious word-for-word literal translation back to English. The later â€œPrivate Historyâ€ discusses the revelation of a parallel story centuries earlier in ancient Greece, with a wry addendum.

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A brief excerpt --- Jim Smiley didn't only keep frogs:

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â€œThish-yer Smiley had a mare â€” the boys called her the fifteen-minute nag, but that was only in fun, you know, because of course she was faster than that â€” and he used to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yardsâ€™ start, and then pass her under way; but always at the fag end of the race sheâ€™d get excited and desperate-like, and come cavorting and straddling up, and scattering her legs around limber, sometimes in the air, and sometimes out to one side among the fences, and kicking up m-o-r-e dust and raising m-o-r-e racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose â€” and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead, as near as you could cipher it down.â€
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-04-21
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-04-21
Format	Kindle eBook

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (with original illustrations)

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