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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County & Other Stories

  • ISBN-13: 9781911475231
  • Publisher: PEN PLUS INK
    Imprint: PEN INK
  • By Mark Twain
  • Price: AUD $8.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 18/09/2018
  • Format: Paperback (140.00mm X 110.00mm) 64 pages Weight: 60g
  • Categories: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) [FC]
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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is one of the most beloved of Mark Twain's tales. Notable for the shaggy-dog quality of the story-within-the-story, this early work of humorous short prose was Twain's first big success as a writer. Seeking someone named Smiley, a man comes to a mining camp and meets a fellow who tells him of another Smiley, an inveterate betting man. One day, this Smiley caught a frog and trained it to out-jump any other frog; but when a stranger appeared at the camp, Smiley's famed gambling skills were tested severely ... This volume also includes two other Twain gems: "The Million-Pound Bank Note," in which a down-and-out American in London is challenged by two rich men to survive with only a rare million-pound bill to his name; and "Luck," which tells of both a great hero of the Crimean War and the only man who knows how he attained such a status.
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