SOURCE: "Artemus Ward and Mark Twain's 'Jumping Frog'," in Nineteenth Century Fiction, Vol. 28, December, 1973, pp. 273-86.
In the following essay, Rodgers surveys some of the notable scholarly interpretations of Twain's jumping frog story before arguing that the sketch can be best understood in the context of Twain 's relationship to the man to whom it was addressed: Artemus Ward.
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