The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is a satirical novella by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899 and was later collected in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays in 1900. Some readers see the story as a replay of the Garden of Eden narrative, with the town's corrupter cast in the role of Satan. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a satirical novella 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 Essays (1900). 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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