The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County
(2019)
Fiction
eAudiobook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Brook Forest Voices, 2019
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (18 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781941105573 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT12379792, 1941105572 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 12379792
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Read by Michael Pearl
According to an LA Times, May 14, 2014 article, the following entry came from a notebook of a gold seeking prospector, Samuel Clemens, in 1864. "Coleman with his jumping frog---bet stranger $50...... ---stranger had no frog & C got him one---in the meantime stranger filled C's frog full of shot and he couldn't jump---the stranger's frog won." Little did Clemens know that this would be the source for his short story that would launch his career as one of America's greatest authors. The story was first published in the New York weekly, The Saturday Press, which gained Twain national attention
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