Celebrated Jumping Frog & Other Sketches
by Mark Twain
read by Robin Field
Part of the Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain series
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a wild yarn involving a case of mistaken identity, a gambler who'd bet on anything, and a very unusual frog named Daniel Webster. First published in The Saturday Press in 1865, the tale was immensely popular, and in 1867 an expanded version was published with 26 additional short stories, told as only Mark Twain could tell them.