num_pages: 528
description: 1901. Illustrated. As humorist, narrator, and social observer, Twain (Samuel Clemens) is unsurpassed in American literature. His novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a masterpiece of humor, characterization, and realism, has been called the first, and perhaps the best, modern American novel. This volume is a collection of previously published stories. 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 Austria; The Austrian Edison Keeping School Again; Traveling with a Reformer; Private History of the Jumping Frog Story; and My Boyhood Dreams. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
language: English
title: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900)
titlecomplete: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900) (The Oxford Mark Twain)
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Literature
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Oxford University Press