The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg & Other Essays and Stories (Hardback)

Condition

VERY GOOD: The book's spine, pages, and covers are in excellent condition.

Product Details

This title is part of a reproduced set of the Greystone Definitive Edition. The original was produced in one thousand twenty four sets. The main titled story was written during the winter of [18]'97-'98 and first published in Harper's Magazine. Letters written to the author questioned the location of Hadleyburg, but the location was a conglomeration of Mark Twain's experiences in traveling the entire world.

Also included are:

• My Début as a Literary Person
• The £1,000,000 Bank-Note
• The Esquimau Maiden's Romance
• My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It
• The Belated Russian Passport
• Two Little Tales
• About Play-Acting
• Diplomatic Pay and Clothes
• Is He Living or Is He Dead?
• My Boyhood Dreams
• The Austrian Edison Keeping School Again
• The Death Disk
• A Double-Barreled Detective Story
• A Petition to the Queen of England