Talk:The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

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sleepy northern california in 1848 this town (in real life) has an actual yearly frog competition that brings in millions —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.81.49.91 (talk) 20:19, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Story or Book

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is both the title of a short story by Mark Twain, first published in the November 18, 1865, issue of the New York weekly The Saturday Press, and of the eponymous book of short stories published in 1867. Until March 2009, our article dealt primarily with the short story, but then the definition in the lede was made to refer primarily to the book – more precisely, the definition in the first sentence refers exclusively to the book, whereas the following sentence refers to "the title story", apparently assuming the reader somehow already knows that TCJFoCC is also a story, and, moreover, a story appearing in this collection.

In my opinion the story should be the primary topic. It was Twain's first important work, which proved extremely popular, was reprinted all over the country, and established his name nation-wide. References to TCJFoCC are almost always to the famous short story, and almost never to the book, which is virtually unknown.  --Lambiam 09:03, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

in the scope of other projects?

im wondering if this would be of interest to embrace in the scope of wikiproject: literature, if there is such.

also, while i count myself among mark twain's fans, i fail to comprehend what made this particular story an utter success at the time of it's first printing. i think it would benefit the article if a literary analysis /literary criticism section could be added (that also stands in general for all articles concerning works of literature). 80.98.40.117 (talk) 16:10, 24 August 2017 (UTC).

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politics

It is about Daniel Webster and Horace Greeley, isn't it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.28.145.40 (talk) 23:25, 12 November 2021 (UTC)