Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper - Enhanced Classroom Edition

Literature & Fiction

Twain, Mr Mark

Classics

Thrive Christian Press

"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain, his first great success as a writer, bringing him national attention. The story has also been published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (its original title) and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Twain describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road."  "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is also the title story of an 1867 collection of short stories by Mark Twain. Twain's first book, it collected 27 stories that were previously published in magazines and newspapers.   Twain first wrote the title short story at the request of his friend Artemus Ward, for inclusion in an upcoming book. Twain worked on two versions but neither was satisfactory to him—neither got around to describing the jumping frog contest. Ward pressed him again, but by the time Twain devised a version he was willing to submit, that book was already nearing publication, so Ward sent it instead to The Saturday Press, where it appeared in the November 18, 1865 edition as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog". Twain's colorful story was immensely popular, and was soon printed in many different magazines and newspapers. Twain developed the idea further, and Bret Harte published this version in The Californian on December 16; this time titled "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", and the man named Smiley was changed to Greeley.  Further popularity of the tale led Twain to use the story to anchor his own first book which appeared in 1867, with a first issue run of only 1,000 copies. The first edition was issued in seven colors, with no priority: blue, brown, green, lavender, plum, terra-cotta and red and is sought after by book collectors fetching thousands of dollars at auctions. In the book version, Twain changed Greeley back to Smiley.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Short Stories & Anthologies

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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Tom Sawyer's Comrade

Dramas & Plays

A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

he Prince and the Pauper tells the tale of two boys who trade clothing one afternoon and, as a result, they trade lives as well. After many adventures, matters are set right again, with one of the boys resuming his rightful, royal position and the other boy accepting a position that recognizes his innate intelligence and good heartedness. One of these boys is the long-awaited male heir to the throne of England, Edward Tudor, son of Henry VIII. The other boy is Tom Canty, the unloved son of a beggar and thief. Coincidentally, Tom Canty and Edward Tudor were born in London on the same day.

The Prince And The Pauper

Action & Adventure

<p>Mark Twain toured the British Empire in 1895, during which time he began concocting a travelogue about the experience that was published in 1897. Twain’s narrative spans the globe, from Australia to Hawaii. Full of tall-tales and real-life criticisms of imperialist arrogance, “Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World” is written with Twain’s characteristic wit and enthusiasm for a good, entertaining story.</p>

Following The Equator: A Journey Around The World

Contemporary

<p>At the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom and the young vagabond Huckleberry Finn discovered twelve thousand dollars they are shared. The money is now placed at interest by the Thatcher judge. And Huck, whose father has been missing for more than a year, was adopted by the Widow Douglas. This, assisted by her sister Miss Watson, undertakes to "civilize" Huck. The boy, who lived in a barrel until then, enjoy some find themselves encased in beautiful new clothes, crushed under heavy conventions. The sound of six thousand dollars eventually reach the ears of his father, who suddenly appears, is confirmed in the custody of his son, forbids it to go to school, and initiate proceedings against the judge Thatcher to extort money (as Huck took care to sell his share to the judge for a dollar).    In spring, the drunkard grabs his son by surprise and takes up the river in a cabin hidden in the woods, where the receiver. Huck says he prefers a life of hunting and fishing stifling constraints it faced at the Widow Douglas. However, the old Finn abusing the stick. In a fit of delirium tremens, he even tries to kill his son. Advantage of the absence of the drunkard, Huck manages to get out of the cabin. "To prevent the widow and the old" running after him, he simulates his own assassination, and down the river by canoe to Jackson Island. After four days, he discovers he is not alone on the island. A runaway slave is hidden: the old Jim, who belongs to Miss Watson. Huck promises not to denounce it. One day, disguised as a girl, Huck returns to the city for news. He learns that some suspect of killing Jim, because the slave disappeared the day of "murder." And men, who noticed smoke on Jackson Island, are exploring it the same evening. Huck hastily returned the island, and the two friends fled aboard a raft.   Huck and Jim aboard their raft. Sleeping well hidden the day, sailing at night, they go down the Mississippi. They meet rafts, beautiful storms, barges, steamers, but also a home that floats and contains a corpse, or a ship sinking, on which two bandits are about to perform an unscrupulous accomplice ..</p>

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

United States

A person who is ignorant of legal matters is always liable to make mistakes when he tries to photograph a court scene with his pen; and so I was not willing to let the law chapters in this book go to press without first subjecting them to rigid and exhausting revision and correction by a trained barrister—if that is what they are called. These chapters are right, now, in every detail, for they were rewritten under the immediate eye of William Hicks, who studied law part of a while in southwest Missouri thirty-five years ago and then came over here to Florence for his health and is still helping for exercise and board in Macaroni Vermicelli's horse-feed shed, which is up the back alley as you turn around the corner out of the Piazza del Duomo just beyond the house where that stone that Dante used to sit on six hundred years ago is let into the wall when he let on to be watching them build Giotto's campanile and yet always got tired looking as Beatrice passed along on her way to get a chunk of chestnut cake to defend herself with in case of a Ghibelline outbreak before she got to school, at the same old stand where they sell the same old cake to this day and it is just as light and good as it was then, too, and this is not flattery, far from it. He was a little rusty on his law, but he rubbed up for this book, and those two or three legal chapters are right and straight, now. He told me so himself.

The Tragedy Of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

I intend that this autobiography shall become a model for all future autobiographies when it is published, after my death, and I also intend that it shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and method—a form and method whereby the past and the present are constantly brought face to face, resulting in contrasts which newly fire up the interest all along, like contact of flint with steel. Moreover, this autobiography of mine does not select from my life its showy episodes, but deals mainly in the common experiences which go to make up the life of the average human being, because these episodes are of a sort which he is familiar with in his own life, and in which he sees his own life reflected and set down in print. The usual, conventional autobiographer seems to particularly hunt out those occasions in his career when he came into contact with celebrated persons, whereas his contacts with the uncelebrated were just as interesting to him, and would be to his reader, and were vastly more numerous than his collisions with the famous.

Chapters From My Autobiography

History & Criticism

Christian Science

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