The Jumping Frog

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Jumping Frog, by Mark Twain. Read by Ruth Golding and Didier. "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) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books (in more than 20 languages) or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (30MB)

Directors & creators

Mark Twain

Subjects

Librivox; audiobook; fiction; English; French; short stories

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