title: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories
author: Mark Twain
description: <div> <strong>Mark Twain</strong> was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental<b id="emdash"></b>and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called the Lincoln of our literature.</div>
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  # Sketches New and Old
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Mark Twain
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
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  PREFACE
  
  
  MY WATCH--[Written about 1870.]
  
  
  POLITICAL ECONOMY
  
  
  THE JUMPING FROG [written about 1865]
  
  
  THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY
  
  
  [Pronounced Cal-e-va-ras]
  
  
  THE JUMPING FROG
  
  
  THE FROG JUMPING OF THE COUNTY OF CALAVERAS
  
  
  JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE --[Written about 1871.]
  
  
  THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY--[Written about
  
  
  1865]
  
  
  THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY--[Witten about
  
  
  1865]
  
  
  A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE --[Written
  
  
  about 1865]
  
  
  NIAGARA [ Written about 1871.]
  
  
  ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS --[Written about 1865.]
  
  
  
  
  
  TO RAISE POULTRY
  
  
  EXPERIENCE OF THE McWILLIAMSES WITH MEMBRANOUS
  
  
  CROUP
  
  
  MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE
  
  
  HOW THE AUTHOR WAS SOLD IN NEWARK --[Written
  
  
  about 1869.]
  
  
  THE OFFICE BORE --[Written about 1869]
  
  
  JOHNNY GREER
  
  
  THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF THE GREAT BEEF CONTRAC