Mark Twain

The Jumping Frog

The Jumping Frog 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, 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) Total running time: 01:05:11.

o — Introduction — 00:04:13 - Read by Ruth Golding

1- The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - 00:17:59 - Read by Ruth Golding

2 — La Grenouille Sauteuse du Comte de Calaveras — 00:16:46 - Read by Didier

3 — The Frog Jumping of the County of Calaveras — 00:16:59 - Read by Ruth Golding 4 — Private History of the Jumping Frog Story — 00:09:14 - Read by Ruth Golding

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Cover image by F. Strothman (1903). Author picture from Appleton’s Journal (7/4/1874). Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU, and all countries with author’s life +70 yrs laws. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design

is in the public domain.

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