The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County, and other sketches

Format:

Book

Title:

The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County, and other sketches

Author:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

ISBN:

9780195114003

9780195101317

9780195090888

9780195113457

9780199733491

Publication Information:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Physical Description:

xliv, 198, 33 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series title(s):

Works.

Contents:

Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Aurelia's unfortunate young man -- A complaint about correspondents -- Answers to correspondents -- Among the Fenians -- Story of the bad little boy who didn't come to grief -- Curing a cold -- Inquiry about insurances -- Literature in the dry diggings -- "After" Jenkins -- Lucretia Smith's soldier -- Killing of Julius Caesar "localized" -- Item which the editor himself could not understand -- Among the spirits -- Brief biographical sketch of George Washington -- Touching story of George Washington's boyhood -- Page from a Californian almanac -- Information for the million -- Launch of the steamer Capital -- Origin of illustrious men -- Advice for good little girls -- Concerning chambermaids -- Remarkable instances of presence of mind -- Honoured as a curiosity in Honolulu -- Steed "Oahu" -- Strange dream -- Short and singular rations -- Cannibalism in the cars

Summary:

Introduction by Roy Blount, Jr. Afterword by Richard Bucci.

Subject(s):

Humorous stories, American.

Genre:

Humorous fiction.

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Silver Falls Library	FIC TWAIN	Searching... Unknown

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On Order

Summary

Out of print for well over a century, Mark Twain's first book features 27 devilish and quicksilver sketches the author wrote while living in California and Nevada.

Author Notes

Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

(Bowker Author Biography)