The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Tale Blazers)
By Mark Twain.
Description
Featuring 27 sketches the author wrote while living in California and Nevada, Mark Twain's first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was published in May 1867, and has been out of print for well over a century. As Roy Blount Jr. observes in his introduction, Jumping Frog isnot just the seed from which the Mark Twain empire sprang, it is his most devilish and quicksilver book, the one that made the fewest concessions to the book-buying market of the day--the work of a man who had profited, artistically, from the company of roughnecks. In his Afterword, Richard Buccino...
ISBN(s)
0895986620, 9780895986627
