Originally published as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” in New York’s The Saturday Press in November of 1865, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” was Mark Twain’s first major success as a writer of fiction. The story chronicles the exploits of the huckster and gambler Jim Smiley, a legend among the miners and speculators of the California Gold Rush of 1849. Irreverent, hilarious, and thoroughly American, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” bears all the hallmarks of a classic Mark Twain tale.

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