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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in "Harper's Monthly" in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper & Brothers in the collection "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches" (1900). Some see this story "as a replay of the Garden of Eden story", and associate the corrupter of the town with Satan.
Plot summary.
Chapter I
Hadleyburg enjoys the
Trying Situation." The fishwife tale is from Appendix D in "A Tramp Abroad", subtitled "The Awful German Language."
External links.
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - in an easy to read, page by page format.
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - The man that corrupted Hadleyburg on OpenLibrary.org