Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
1865
Short Story
Comedy
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is a nested narrative. An unnamed first-person narrator visiting a 19th-century mining camp passes on stories told by Simon Wheeler, a wordy storyteller in the camp.
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is told in the past tense.
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" builds to a ridiculous story about a frog trained to win jumping contests. However, the frog doesn't win the big contest and so is not celebrated in the end.
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