Download or read book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County written by Mark Twain and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Download or read book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches written by Mark Twain and published by George Routledge and Sons. This book was released on 1867 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches New and Old written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Jumping Frog and Other Stories written by Mark Twain and published by Pushkin Collection. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much celebrated jumping frog, the lack of literature in a gold-mining town, and castaways who eat their own shoes to survive are among the subjects treated by the stories contained in this volume. The Jumping Frog and Other Sketches captures the light and humorous spirit of Mark Twain’s early work, inspired by his experiences in the mining districts of California and Nevada. These sketches became widely known in America, India, China and England and launched the solid foundation of the author's fame.
Download or read book CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY written by MARK. TWAIN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County written by Mark Twain and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. 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. The narrator describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road."
Download or read book The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County and other sketches written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Mark Twain Full Set written by Mark Twain and published by Oxford Mark Twain. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 14176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents facsimile first editions of Twain's works that include all original illustrations. Each volume contains introductions by literary heavyweights including Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Cynthia Ozick, Gore Vidal, George Plimpton, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Walter Mosley, among others.
Download or read book The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Sketches written by Mark Twain and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fine verbatim reproduction of Mark Twain's first book. "Mr. C. H. Webb has celebrated his debut as publisher by bestowing upon a community long rested from loud laughs, a book calculated to promote healthy good humor in the system. Mark Twain's book of California stories, 'The Jumpin' Frog and Other Sketches' -- is a work that will make its readers merry. . . . There are few who can resist the quaint smiles, keen satire, and hard good sense which form the staple of the writings." --New York Evening Express, 1867
Download or read book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County written by Mark Twain and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: And Other Sketches After Jenkins, Lucretia Smith's Soldier, The Killing of Julius Caesar Localized, An Item which the Editor Himself could not Understand, Among the Spirits, Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood, A Page from a Californian Almanac, Information for the Million. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches Scholar s Choice Edition written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The jumping frog and other sketches by Mark Twain written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches by Mark Twain Ed by J Paul written by Mark Twain and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... SHOET AND SINGULAR RATIONS. AS many will remember, the clipper-ship Hornet, of New York, was burned at sea on her passage to San Francisco. The disaster occurred in lat, 2 20' north, long. 112 6' west After being forty-three days adrift on the broad Pacific in open boats, the crew and passengers succeeded in making Hawaii. A tribute to the courage and brave endurance of these men has been paid in a letter detailing their sufferings (the particulars being gathered from their own lips), from which the following excerpt is made: -- On Monday, the thirty-eighth day after the disaster, "we had nothing left," said the third mate, "but a pound and a half of ham--the bone was a good deal the heaviest part of it--and one soup- andbully tin." These things were divided among the fifteen men, and they ate it--two ounces of food to each man. I do not count the ham-bone, as that was saved for next day. For some time, now, the poor wretches had been cutting their old boots into small pieces and eating them. They would also pound wet rags to a sort of pulp and eat them. On the thirty-ninth day the ham-bone was divided up into rations, and scraped with knives and eaten. I said, "You say the two sick men remained sick all through, and after a while two or three had to be relieved from standing watch; bow did you get along without medicines?" The reply was, "Oh! we couldn't have kept them if we'd had them; if we'd had boxes of pills, or anything like that, we'd have eaten them. It was just as well--we couldn't have kept them, and we couldn't have given them to the sick men alone --we'd have shared them around all alike, I guess." It was said rather in jest, but it was a pretty true jest, no doubt. After apportioning the ham-bone, the captain...
