A Study Guide for Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
()
About this ebook
Read more from Gale
A study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for James Clavell's "Shogun" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's Animal Farm Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Louis Sachar's "Holes" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Lois Lowry's The Giver Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for William Shakespeare's Macbeth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Furniture Businesses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for James Joyce's "James Joyce's Ulysses" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for George Orwell's 1984 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: ALBERT BANDURA Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: JEAN PIAGET Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide (New Edition) for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Bakery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Wole Soyinka's "Death and the King's Horsemen" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Auto Detailing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide (New Edition) for William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to A Study Guide for Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Related ebooks
Mansfield Park (Annotated) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Trouble With Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Philosophy of Despair Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Room of One’s Own Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Name Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMrs. Dalloway (Annotated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife and Death of Harriett Frean Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Greatest Russian Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Yellow Wallpaper Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Edith Wharton's "House of Mirth" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Woman Who Rode Away And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Omoo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Perfect Stranger Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummer on the Lakes, in 1843 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fifth Sun Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSanditon: & Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5With Her in Ourland Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Our Village Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings7 best short stories - Germany Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Karenina Companion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPantagruel by François Rabelais (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn My Daddy's Belly: The story of a Transgender Dad giving Birth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLily B. on the Brink of Paris Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frankenstein Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGrief Is an Elephant Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOur Mutual Friend: With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSelected Short Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Teaching Methods & Materials For You
The Three Bears Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Speed Reading: How to Read a Book a Day - Simple Tricks to Explode Your Reading Speed and Comprehension Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Personal Finance for Beginners - A Simple Guide to Take Control of Your Financial Situation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Speed Reading: Learn to Read a 200+ Page Book in 1 Hour: Mind Hack, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic, Second Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Verbal Judo, Second Edition: The Gentle Art of Persuasion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Principles: Life and Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Making Friends: Helping Socially Challenged Teens and Young Adults Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jack Reacher Reading Order: The Complete Lee Child’s Reading List Of Jack Reacher Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Four-Hour School Day: How You and Your Kids Can Thrive in the Homeschool Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From 150 to 179 on the LSAT Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Closing of the American Mind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers: The Secret to Loving Teens Effectively Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for A Study Guide for Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
A Study Guide for Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - Gale
2
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Mark Twain
1865
Introduction
Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
was first published in the November 18, 1865, edition of The New York Saturday Press, under the title Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog.
The story, which has also been published as The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,
is set in a gold-mining camp in Calaveras County, California, and has its origins in the folklore of the Gold Rush era. It was one of Twain’s earliest writings, and helped establish his reputation as a humorist. He eventually included it as the title story in his first collection of tales.
Jumping Frog
was originally told in epistolary form—that is, as a letter—though some reprints of the tale have since omitted this letter-frame convention. In the story, Twain recounts his visit, made at the request of a friend back East, to an old man named Simon Wheeler in a California mining camp. Wheeler tells Twain a colorful story about another miner, Jim Smiley. According to Wheeler, Smiley loved to make bets; he would bet on nearly anything. Wheeler relates some of Smiley’s more famous gambling escapades, one of which concerns a pet frog. Critics frequently cite this story as an example of a tall tale and note Twain’s use of humor and exaggeration. They also emphasize the tale’s satirical focus on storytelling and existing cultural differences between the western and eastern regions of the United