Mark Twain

The Celebrated Jumping Frog, and Other Sketches Mark Twain

Fine verbatim reproduction of Mark Twain's first book. "Mr. C. H. Webb has celebrated his debut as publisher by bestowing upon a community long rested from loud laughs, a book calculated to promote healthy good humor in the system. Mark Twain's book of California stories, 'The Jumpin' Frog and Other Sketches' -- is a work that will make its readers merry. . . . There are few who can resist the quaint smiles, keen satire, and hard good sense which form the staple of the writings." --New York Evening Express, 1867