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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: Critical Essay by Edgar M. Branch

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SOURCE: "'My Voice is Still for Setchell': A Background Study of 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog'," in PMLA, Vol. 82, No. 7, December, 1967, pp. 591-601.

Below, Branch discusses the influence of Twain 's personal life on his composition of the jumping frog story.

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