About this book
"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 by Wikipedia)
Chapters
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- 1The Jumping Frog: In English, then in French, then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil4:13 · read by Ruth Golding
- 2The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County17:59 · read by Ruth Golding
- 3La Grenouille Sauteuse du Comté de Calaveras16:46 · read by Didier
- 4The Frog Jumping of the County of Calaveras16:59 · read by Ruth Golding
- 5Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story9:14 · read by Ruth Golding
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