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First edition (published by Charles Henry Webb) " The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. [1] The story has also been published as " Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog " (its original title) and " The Notorious Jumping ...
An American TV adaptation, the 18th episode of Your Show Time, aired on NBC Television on May 20, 1949. The 1954 film The Million Pound Note was based on this short story, and starred Gregory Peck as Henry Adams. The 1968 BBC TV adaptation, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, starred Stuart Damon. The 1983 comedy film, Trading Places, features elements ...
A Salutation Speech From the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth. " The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg " is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper & Brothers in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900).
A Horse's Tale. " A Dog's Tale " is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's Magazine. In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Still later in 1904 it was expanded into a book published by Harper & Brothers.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized ...
A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage. Author. Mark Twain. Published. privately 1945, Norton edition 2001. ISBN. 0393043762. " A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage " is a short story written by Mark Twain in 1876. It was published in a very small, unauthorized edition in 1945, with an authorized edition not appearing until 2001.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (also simply known as Tom Sawyer) is a novel by Mark Twain published on 9 June 1876 about a boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. [2]
Following the Equator. Following the Equator (sometimes titled More Tramps Abroad) is a non-fiction social commentary in the form of a travelogue published by Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to investing heavily into the failed Paige Compositor. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent ...