A MUCH CELEBRATED jumping frog, the lack of literature in a gold-mining town, and castaways who eat their own shoes to survive are among the subjects treated by the stories contained in this volume. 
The Jumping Frog and Other Sketches captures the light and humorous spirit of Mark Twain’s early work, inspired by his experiences in the mining districts of California and Nevada. These sketches became widely known in America, India, China and England and launched the solid foundation of the author's fame. 

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MARK TWAIN (1835-1910), the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and writer. Twain, who is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, helped create and popularise American themes and language and is now one of America’s most enduring voices in literature. Such discerning critics as Ambrose Bierce called him the ‘foremost man of American letters’. 

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ISBN 978 1 901285 93 2
240 pages with 11 b/w illustrations by Grafton T. Brown

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“Mark Twain gave pleasure—real intellectual enjoyment—to millions, and his works will continue to give such pleasure to millions yet to come ... He has made an enduring part of American literature” 
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT