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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

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 . Some see this story "as a replay of the Garden of Eden story", and associate the corrupter of the town with Satan.


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“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.”

"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", ch. I, in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900)

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