The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (Illustrated)

398 pp. ""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). Twain actually encouraged it to be read as a replay of the Garden of Eden story in a satiric sense." CONTENTS: The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg; My Debut as a Literary Person; From the "London Times: of 1904; At the Appetite-Cure; My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It; Is He Living or Is He Dead?; The Esquimau Maiden's Romance; How to Tell a Story; About Play-Acting; Concerning the Jews; Stirring Times in Australia: I.--The Government in the Frying-Pan, II.--A Memorable Sitting, III.---Curious Parliamentary Etiquette, IV.--The Historic Climax; The Austrian Edison Keeping School Again; Travelling with a Reformer; Private History of the "Jumping Frog" Story; My Boyhood Dreams.