The Jumping Frog and 18 Other Stories

By Mark Twain

Subjects: short stories, Contests in fiction, Compulsive gamblers in fiction, Humorous stories, Compulsive gamblers, Nouvelles américaines, Frogs in fiction, American Short stories, Frogs, American Humorous stories, American wit and humor, Fiction, American literature, Juvenile fiction, Zamorano 80, Contests

Description: Jumping frog -- Glorious whitewasher -- On the decay of the art of living -- Punch, brothers, punch -- Death of Jean -- How I was sold in Newark -- On the babies -- About barbers -- On the weather -- Colonel Sellers's schemes for money-making -- Stolen white elephant -- Corn pone opinions -- Rank and dignity of piloting -- My first lie, and how I got out of it -- Maxims of Pudd'nhead Wilson -- On the ladies -- Seventieth birthday -- Curious dream -- Petrified man -- Mark Twain writes to amuse his mother.