TY  - BOOK
AU  - Twain,Mark
TI  - The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
AV  - PS 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Humorous stories, American
KW  - United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_That_Corrupted_Hadleyburg; Release date is 1998-02-01; David Price,
email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Transcribed from the 1907 Chatto & Windus edition; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" by Mark Twain is a satirical novella first published in 1899. When a mysterious stranger leaves a sack of gold in the famously incorruptible town of Hadleyburg, he sets an elaborate trap to expose the citizens' true nature. Nineteen prominent couples fall for his scheme, claiming a reward based on false pretenses. Their dishonesty unravels at a public meeting, revealing that a reputation for virtue means little when tested by real temptation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1213
ER  -