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    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
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    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories

    By Mark Twain

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1903
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    Mark Twain

    Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard L. Stein are members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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      of the several stories, two bring a constant smile to my face: "travels with a reformer" and the Austrian legislature pieces (4 of them). Not his best, but certainly a needed asset to any library.

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