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The Jumping Frog Paperback – September 10, 1998

by Mark Twain (Author), Alan James Robinson (Illustrator)

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Mark Twain's Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a story of the crusty Jim Smiley, a man who so loved to bet on animals - horses, dogs, etc. - that he trained a frog to be the strongest jumper in his county. Twain's broad yet graceful humor is beautifully complemented by the elegant woodcuts of Alan James Robinson. Finely reproduced, these illustrations bring Twain's great comic tale to life.Twain's classic tale of the Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is in three parts: the original tale published in 1865, the first French translation of the story, and Twain's tongue-in-cheek verbatim re-translation into English.

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80 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Moyer Bell
Publication date

September 10, 1998
Dimensions

5.5 x 0.25 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-10

1559210974
ISBN-13

978-1559210973
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The book is graced with comic but elegant wood carvings by Alan James Robinson...Twain fans will leap for joy. -- New Orleans Times - Picayune

About the Author

Mark Twain is the author of many great American classics including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Pudd'nhead Wilson. In 1867, Twain set sail for a five month tour of Europe and the Middle East, and the letters which he wrote while on this trip form the basis for "The Innocents Abroad".

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Moyer Bell; 2nd edition (September 10, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1559210974
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1559210973
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.53 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.25 x 8.5 inches

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Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910). He was born and brought up in the American state of Missouri and, because of his father's death, he left school to earn his living when he was only twelve. He was a great adventurer and travelled round America as a printer; prospected for gold and set off for South America to earn his fortune. He returned to become a steam-boat pilot on the Mississippi River, close to where he had grown up. The Civil War put an end to steam-boating and Clemens briefly joined the Confederate army - although the rest of his family were Unionists! He had already tried his hand at newspaper reporting and now became a successful journalist. He started to use the alias Mark Twain during the Civil War and it was under this pen name that he became a famous travel writer. He took the name from his steam-boat days - it was the river pilots' cry to let their men know that the water was two fathoms deep.

Mark Twain was always nostalgic about his childhood and in 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published, based on his own experiences. The book was soon recognised as a work of genius and eight years later the sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was published. The great writer Ernest Hemingway claimed that 'All modern literature stems from this one book.'

Mark Twain was soon famous all over the world. He made a fortune from writing and lost it on a typesetter he invented. He then made another fortune and lost it on a bad investment. He was an impulsive, hot-tempered man but was also quite sentimental and superstitious. He was born when Halley's Comet was passing the Earth and always believed he would die when it returned - this is exactly what happened.

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Viking Kat

What can I say - it's Mark Twain, after all

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2022

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Got this for my son who is currently sort of learning French, and I thought he might enjoy it. I've loved it for years. This seems to be a nice edition,

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2016

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A real crack-up, especiall; if you speak some French

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Goddess of Chaos

Mark Twain's sense of humor in display

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2017

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I enjoy the wit, wisdom, and humor of Mark Twain, and was intrigued by the description mentioning his translating the celebrated jumping from of calevares county back out of French.

From the first line it is clear the French translator has a different sense of humor, as he skips the first few paragraphs of the story, which set the stage for the tale, and contain some of the imagery and humor.

It also means Simon Wheeler and the narrator are no longer two distinct separate characters, and some fun lines are missed, for instance: Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph.

While I agree with the person who says you can get this story elsewhere, there evolution through the translations, and unsolicited editing, was an added but if humor.

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Constance Porteous

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2016

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Got the book in time and enjoyed it.

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Gio

Mark in a Playful Mood...

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2008

Mark Twain had a wicked sense of humor. Sometimes it got him in embarassing scrapes, like his famous disaster at the banguet for Jame Russel Lowell. Old Mark wouldn't have been comfortable with "political correctness" - no matter who defined it.
Twain wrote some wickedly funny essays about the ludicrous (to him) German language, and he wasn't any more merciful to French. In this little book, he finds himself astonished (disingenuously) at reading a translation of his famous story "the Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" into French. The volume in hand contains that story, the translation, and for our amusement, Twain's retranslation of his story from French to English:
"It there was one time here an individual under the name of Jim Smiley; it was in the winter of '49, possibly well at the spring of '50, I no me recollect not exactly. This which makes me to believe that it was the one or the other, it is that I shall remember that the grand flume is not achieved when he arrives at the camp for the first time..." and so on through the whole tale.
Gruelingly funny, but perhaps it is that hardly lest one shall whenself have studied the french...

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Alan G. Yoder

Horrible job of scanning -- nearly unreadable -- do not buy.

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2020

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This is a scan of a printed book followed by broken-ass automatic processing. Words have spaces introduced, page numbers and headings are interspersed in the text, and so on. Scans of the book covers and so on are included, which may imply copyright infringement. Very bad job, Amazon.

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2018

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Good read, again.

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Qubit

Vintage Twain but very badly formatted for Kindle

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2012

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This is vintage Twain humor and widely cited by translation scholars. However, this Kindle version is seriously flawed. Upon changing the size of the font, each line acts as a separate paragraph and wraps awfully making the reading extremely awkward.

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giovanna sammartinaro

Buone condizioni

Reviewed in Italy on September 26, 2023

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Buone condizioni

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Cliente Amazon

Muy bien todo

Reviewed in Spain on February 21, 2017

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Viene con un CD, ésto está muy bien para ponerlo en el coche. El libro está bien, lo recomiendo, saludos.

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Cristina

Compiti delle vacanze

Reviewed in Italy on December 9, 2022

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Preso per mia figlia che lo doveva leggere per le vacanze estive. Mi ha riferito che le è piacciuto. Ottimo per aiutare nell'inglese

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Francesca G.

Perfetto

Reviewed in Italy on July 15, 2022

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Essendo un libro non c'è nulla da recensire sulla qualità del prodotto.
Eccellente però l'estetica, arrivato imbustato e senza nessun segno di usura
Il venditore ha spedito molto prima del previsto
Ottima esperienza di acquisto

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alessandra

Versione ebook non corrispondente

Reviewed in Italy on September 5, 2022

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Ho acquistato la versione ebook e non corrisponde con la versione dell'ed. Black cat. È più breve (26 pag rispetto a 96) e metà è in francese...boh!

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