Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The short-story collection The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches, Twain's first book, contains twenty-seven short stories and sketches.
1. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County“ 2. "Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man“ 3. "A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco“ 4. "Answers to Correspondents“ 5. "Among the Fenians" 6. "The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief“ 7. "Curing a Cold“ 8. "An Inquiry about Insurances“ 9. "Literature in the Dry Diggings“ 10."'After' Jenkins“ 11."Lucretia Smith's Soldier"
He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. Notable work The Dandy Frightening the Squatter Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,1865 (his first humorous story) The Innocents Abroad,1869 The Gilded Age,1873 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,1876 Life on the Mississippi,1883 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,1884 (Great American Novel ) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,1900 Born during a visit by Halley's Comet and died on its return. April 21, 1910 (aged 74) Redding, Connecticut, U.S. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American