- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries; 2nd Revised edition edition (Sep 10 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1559210974
- ISBN-13: 978-1559210973
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.9 x 0.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 113 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Mark Twain's "Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is a story of the crusty Jim Smiley, a man who so loved to bet on animals - horses, dogs, etc. - that he trained a frog to be the strongest jumper in his county.
Twain's broad yet graceful humor is beautifully complemented by the elegant woodcuts of Alan James Robinson. Finely reproduced, these illustrations bring Twain's great comic tale to life.
Twain's classic tale of the "Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is in three parts: the original tale published in 1865, the first French translation of the story, and Twain's tongue-in-cheek verbatim re-translation into English.
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This illustrated edition of Twain's classic tale is in three parts: the original tale published in 1865, the first French translation of the story, and Twain's tongue-in-cheek verbatim re-translation "to the English after martyrdom in the French." 15 original woodcut engravings.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Mahhvelous Dahhlink!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Jumping Frog (Paperback)
This is a super book, to read aloud or for kids to try on their own. The pictures are fun and Twain is (of course) delightful. You won't regret buying this book.
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Book about the perils of translation,
By Antoniioo Giidi "Giidi" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Jumping Frog (Paperback)
The Jumping Frog is an interesting tale, but this book is more about the difficulties of translations than about the Jumping Frog itself. You can probably find the Jumping Frog in other collection of Twain's books, so don't bother to buy this book if you are only interested in the tale. It is only a three-page tale.To make a long story short, the Jumping Frog was translated into French with the objective of demoralizing Twain's humor. Obviously, the humor in this tale was more in between the lines and in the form it was written than about the story itself (which was silly and not funny.) As Twain says, however, the translator "has not translated it at all; he has simply mixed it all up; it is no more like the Jumping Frog when he gets through with it than I am like a meridian of longitude." To prove his point, Twain proceeded to translate the French translation "back into a civilized language" [i.e. English] to show that the French translation did not do justice to his work. This book has the original tale in the first pages, then the French translation, and then the English version of the French translation. It is more a personal vendetta from Twain than a work of literature. But it is an interesting work for those interested in translation. 2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Mahhvelous Dahhlink!,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jumping Frog (Paperback)
This is a super book, to read aloud or for kids to try on their own. The pictures are fun and Twain is (of course) delightful. You won't regret buying this book.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Vintage Twain but very badly formatted for Kindle,
By Qubit - Published on Amazon.com
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This is vintage Twain humor and widely cited by translation scholars. However, this Kindle version is seriously flawed. Upon changing the size of the font, each line acts as a separate paragraph and wraps awfully making the reading extremely awkward.
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