Excerpt from The American Legion Monthly, Vol. 9: September, 1930 In fact, many readers have seen a fundamental resemblance between it and the fables of Aesop - the same economical state ment of concrete details, the same shrewd understanding of human nature on its unheroic levels, the same essential good humor. In a volume called How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, Mark Twain published a paper called The Private History of The Jumping Frog Story. He had had his attention called, he said, to an ancient Greek version of ...
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Excerpt from The American Legion Monthly, Vol. 9: September, 1930 In fact, many readers have seen a fundamental resemblance between it and the fables of Aesop - the same economical state ment of concrete details, the same shrewd understanding of human nature on its unheroic levels, the same essential good humor. In a volume called How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, Mark Twain published a paper called The Private History of The Jumping Frog Story. He had had his attention called, he said, to an ancient Greek version of the same incident. There it was, practically word for word, as he had written it, though he was innocent of Greek and had never heard of this original. Later he learned, to his relief, that this Greek text was only a translation of his own story, made by a famous scholar to brighten the classroom for his students. Turned back into the old language, however, the history of The Jumping Frog seemed a blood brother to the fables of antiquity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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