{"product_id":"2026100007260-secondhand-the-celebrated-jumping-frog-and-other-stories","title":"The Celebrated Jumping Frog And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the pen of America's most beloved humorist comes a riotous collection that launched a literary legend — The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories announces Mark Twain's arrival as the undisputed master of the American tall tale. At the heart of the collection sits the infamous Jim Smiley and his prodigiously gifted amphibian, Daniel Webster, whose contest forms the centrepiece of a story brimming with frontier wit, deadpan absurdity, and the irresistible cadence of the American West. Surrounding this cornerstone tale is a constellation of further sketches and stories that chronicle the rough-hewn characters, comic misadventures, and vernacular richness of mid-19th-century American life.\n\nTwain's genius lies in his uncanny ability to disguise sharp social observation beneath layers of seemingly artless storytelling, a technique that would come to define an entire tradition of American comic writing. First published in 1867, this collection represents the opening salvo in a career that would produce Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, yet it retains a raw, exuberant energy entirely its own. Scholars and casual readers alike continue to return to these pages, finding in Twain's deceptively simple prose a portrait of a nation that is at once hilarious, deeply human, and — in its own irrepressible way — timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130980376795,"sku":"2026100007260-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5fa3e576-bee7-43c4-a507-008af2793627.png?v=1786593505","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007260-secondhand-the-celebrated-jumping-frog-and-other-stories","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}