{"product_id":"the-celebrated-jumping-frog-of-calaveras-county-and-other-sketches-1867-the-aoxford-mark-twain","title":"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County  and Other Sketches (1867) (The AOxford Mark Twain)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFeaturing 27 sketches the author wrote while living in California and Nevada  Mark Twains first book  The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County  was published in May 1867  and has been out of print for well over a century. As Roy Blount Jr. observes in his introduction  \"Jumping Frog is not just the seed from which the Mark Twain empire sprang  it is his most devilish and quicksilver book  the one that made the fewest concessions to the book-buying market of the day--the work of a man who had profited  artistically  from the company of roughnecks.\" In his Afterword  Richard Bucci notes that \"Mark Twain rebelled against everything that was obscure in art  and everywhere sought to deepen and broaden his audience. His cause was not merely to deflate and criticize  but to create  in a new and democratic artistic language. The Jumping Frog book is only a small moment on his path to remaking American fiction  but it is the beginning moment--reason enough to justify the books reappearance now  after one hundred twenty five years. Grand historical significance aside  however  not a few of the sketches in this book still sparkle with their original humor and insight into the human condition.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974380122165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195101316","price":32.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195101317.jpg?v=1770656410","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-celebrated-jumping-frog-of-calaveras-county-and-other-sketches-1867-the-aoxford-mark-twain","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}