Synopses & Reviews
Presented here are the tall tales The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, What Stumped the Bluejays, The Story of the Old Ram and other stories and essays that have made Twain the most loved of American authors.
Table of Contents
The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Tom Quartz -- A genuine Mexican plug -- What stumped the Bluejays -- The story of the old ram -- The great landslide case -- Buck Fanshaw's funeral -- How I edited an agricultural paper -- Journalism in Tennessee -- The facts in the great beef contract -- The art of authorship -- An author's soldiering -- First interview with Artemus Ward -- Punch, brothers, punch -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses -- The canvasser's tale -- Political economy -- Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup -- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm -- The recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- Cannibalism in the cars -- Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven.