"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Fenimore Cooper's Literary" by Mark Twain

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

With its complexity of characters, complex narrative structure, and control the style of "Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog" was the best of Twain wrote for today, and marks a turning point in his development as an artist. Although the sketch has its stylistic roots in the history of the classical frame of South-West there are concerns in the tale, which is purely Twain, and that mark his later recordings. Some of the main themes in the story who are in other ...