Two of his most famous stories, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Cala

"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavaras County," was an idea that was originally from a fireside tale that Twain heard while vacationing with a friend in California. In this story he wrote of a gambling man never seemed to lose. The man loved to bet on things until the day when a stranger who cheated him out of a frog-jumping bet faced him. He adapted this tale with great skill. He wrote it in much the manner as the southwestern humor in the period of his youth. The humorist style was actually a weapon against the bitterness and the gloominess of other writers during this era. It not only gave him his first national fame, but also won approval of his work by several critics for the first time.

The book "Roughing It"(1872) is a good example of another reason why Mark Twain was important in American literature. "Roughing It," recounted Twains trip to t

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