Pre-Owned The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County (Paperback) By Mark Twain

9780910584029. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 38. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 38 p. <p><strong>Samuel Clemens - or "Mark Twain" - came to California in May of 1864, arriving in San Francisco. Later that year he lived in Angel's Camp, where he mined for a time. It was in Angel's Camp that he heard the story of the Jumping Frog. He sent the story East, and it was first published Novenber 18, 1865, in the <em>New York Saturday Press</em>. Immediately popular, it was reprinted on December 16, 1865, in the <em>Californian</em> and was on its way to becoming the story of the year.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>The story was reprinted by Twain in 1875 as "The Jumping Frog," and this book is a reprint of the 1875 edition. The book contains all the original illustrations, and in addition a number of contemporary wood engravings showing daily life of miners in the region.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>The book actually contains two versions of the story: a straightforward telling of the story followed by a hilarious version that Twain says is a retranslation of the story as it had appeared in a French publication but "clawed back from the French into a civilized language."</strong></p>