The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - The Short-story Collection

The Short-story Collection

The short-story collection The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches, Twain's first book, contains twenty-seven short stories and sketches.

• "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
• "Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man"
• "A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco"
• "Answers to Correspondents"
• "Among the Fenians"
• "The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief"
• "Curing a Cold"
• "An Inquiry about Insurances"
• "Literature in the Dry Diggings"
• "'After' Jenkins"
• "Lucretia Smith's Soldier"
• "The Killing of Julius Caesar 'Localized'"
• "An Item which the Editor Himself could not Understand"
• "Among the Spirits"
• "Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington"
• "A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood"
• "A Page from a Californian Almanac"
• "Information for the Million"
• "The Launch of the Steamer Capital"
• "Origin of Illustrious Men"
• "Advice for Good Little Girls"
• "Concerning Chambermaids"
• "Remarkable Instances of Presence of Mind"
• "Honored as a Curiosity in Honolulu"
• "The Steed 'Oahu'"
• "A Strange Dream"
• "Short and Singular Rations"