Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0895986620 ISBN-13: 9780895986627 Publisher: Perfection Learning
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2000 * Out of Print * Click for more in this series: Tale Blazers: American Literature |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Tale Blazers: American Literature |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.9" W x 0.08" L (0.15 lbs) 54 pages |
Features: Ikids, Illustrated |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 8604 Reading Level: 6.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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 is not 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 Bucci notes that Mark Twain rebelled against everything that was obscure in art, and everywhere sought to deepen and broaden his audience. His cause was not merely to deflate and criticize, but to create, in a new and democratic artistic language. The Jumping Frog book is only a small moment on his path to remaking American fiction, but it is the beginning moment--reason enough to justify the book's reappearance now, after one hundred twenty five years. Grand historical significance aside, however, not a few of the sketches in this book still sparkle with their original humor and insight into the human condition. |
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