The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: And Other Sketches

"By Mark Twain's story of the Frog, he scaled the heights of popularity at a single jump, and won for himself the sobriquet of The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope."

-John Paul, editor, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1869)

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a short story by Mark Twain, originally published weekly in The Saturday Press in 1865, which brought him his first great success. It is a humoristic story about a gambler, Jim Smiley, who trained a frog...