The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories, published in 1900, collects the fiction and essays of Mark Twain's later years. In the title story a stranger who has been insulted in a town proud of its incorruptible honesty leaves a sack of gold for the citizen who once did him a kindness, and watches nineteen leading families lie to claim it. The volume also contains My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It, Is He Living or Is He Dead?, From the London Times of 1904, Concerning the Jews, the farce Meisterschaft, My Boyhood Dreams, the essay on Christian Science and the private history of the Jumping Frog story. The humor is darker than in Twain's early sketches. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first story is free.
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Is The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories in the public domain?
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What kind of book is The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories?
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