The Jumping Frog
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog." In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Upon discovering a French translation of this story, Twain re-translated the story, word for word and keeping the French grammar structure, back into English. He then published all three versions under the title "The Jumping Frog: In English, Then in French, and Then Clawed Back Into A Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil." (Summary by Wikipedia)
Genre(s): Humorous Fiction
Language: Multilingual
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 00 | The Jumping Frog: In English, then in French, then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil | Ruth Golding |
00:04:13 |
| Play 01 | The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | Ruth Golding |
00:17:59 |
| Play 02 | La Grenouille Sauteuse du Comté de Calaveras | Didier |
00:16:46 |
| Play 03 | The Frog Jumping of the County of Calaveras | Ruth Golding |
00:16:59 |
| Play 04 | Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story | Ruth Golding |
00:09:14 |