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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Audiobook, by Mark Twain Play Audiobook Sample

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Audiobook

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Audiobook, by Mark Twain Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Kaleo Griffith Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 0.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Series: The Going Public … in Shorts Series Release Date: June 2013 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781481535335

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

1

Longest Chapter Length:

15:57 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

15:57 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

15:57 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

144

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Publisher Description

Though known for his classic novels of adventure and coming of age, Mark Twain is equally esteemed for his short stories, which abound with the colorful characters and often comic antics readers have come to expect from his longer works. Included here is "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," a wild yarn involving a case of mistaken identity, a gambler who'd bet on anything, and an unusual frog named Daniel Webster. Originally published in the Saturday Press in 1865, the tale was immensely popular, and in 1867 an expanded version was published.

Proceeds from sale of this title go to Reach Out and Read, an innovative literacy advocacy organization.

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About Mark Twain

Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens (1835–1910), was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal on the west bank of the Mississippi River. He attended school briefly and then at age thirteen became a full-time apprentice to a local printer. When his older brother Orion established the Hannibal Journal, Samuel became a compositor for that paper and then, for a time, an itinerant printer. With a commission to write comic travel letters, he traveled down the Mississippi. Smitten with the riverboat life, he signed on as an apprentice to a steamboat pilot. After 1859, he became a licensed pilot, but two years later the Civil War put an end to the steam-boat traffic.

In 1861, he and his brother traveled to the Nevada Territory where Samuel became a writer for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and there, on February 3, 1863, he signed a humorous account with the pseudonym Mark Twain. The name was a river man’s term for water “two fathoms deep” and thus just barely safe for navigation.

In 1870 Twain married and moved with his wife to Hartford, Connecticut. He became a highly successful lecturer in the United States and England, and he continued to write.

About Kaleo Griffith

Kaleo Griffith is an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator and classically trained actor. He graduated cum laude from Franklin Pierce University with a BA in theater, holds an MFA in acting from Rutgers University, and is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He has appeared in such television series as Law & Order and Reggie’s Family & Friends, among others.