. 页脚early Works 1)The celebrated Humping Frog of CalaverasCounty,加拉维拉县有名的跳蛙2)The Innocents Abroad 傻子出国记3)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer4)The Gilded Age 镀金时代5) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court亚瑟宫廷中的美国佬6)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn7) Roughing It (含辛茹苦) 8)Life on the Mississippi late works: 1) The Tragedy of Pudd?nhead Wilson (傻瓜威尔逊 ) 2)The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 败坏了的赫德莱堡的人Brief introduction The celebrated Humping Frog of CalaverasCounty "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. The story has also been published as "Jim . 页脚Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (its original title) and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". 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. The narrator describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road."The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches is also the title story of an 1867 collection of short stories by Mark Twain. It was Twain's first book and collected 27 stories that were previously published in magazines and newspapers. The Innocents Abroad The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain, published in 1869, which humorously chronicles wh...
