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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. [1] The story has also been published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (its original title) and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".
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The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is an English language American comic opera in one act and two scenes. It was composed by Lukas Foss with a libretto by Jean Karsavina, based Mark Twain's 1865 short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". The opera was commissioned for television by Roger Englander. [1]
"The Jumping Frog" "Journalism in Tennessee" "The Story of the Bad Little Boy" "The Story of the Good Little Boy" "A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore" "Niagara" "Answers to Correspondents" "To Raise Poultry" "Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup" "My First Literary Venture" "How the Author Was Sold in Newark" "The Office Bore ...
The Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, was the hotel where the author Mark Twain heard a story that he would later turn into his short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". [2] The hotel was originally a canvas tent erected by C. C. Lake in 1851, and replaced by a one-story wooden structure. It was rebuilt with stone in ...
Dan'l Webster, the name of a fictional frog featured in Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and Lukas Foss's opera based on that story, The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."