The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
by Mark Twain · first published 1867
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The story has also been published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (its original title) and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
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…Government, John Locke - The Law, Frederic Bastiat - Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes - Meditations, Marcus Aurelius - Democracy in America, Alexis de Toqueville - On Liberty, John Stuart Mill Fiction: - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Mark Twain - The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin - Metamorphoses, Franz Kafka - Candide, Voltaire - The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?” ↗…against shopkeepers, but I see no reason for any one of them to be more interesting than another. "Well, I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog." -- Mark Twain, "The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County"
on “Why Are Young Billionaires So Boring?” ↗Mark Twain himself wrote a story about a sure thing, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: https://readmeastoryink.com/wp-content/uploads/stories/the_c...
on “The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life” ↗…the difference between comedy (and comedic storytelling) and simply "telling a joke". He didn't think much of the "punchline" type of jokes, he was all about the storytelling... as you can tell by "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and his many other stories.
on “Comedy Theory (2022)” ↗