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  <title><![CDATA[The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg (The Art of the Novella)]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some books have a way of coming back. They are not <em>of</em> their time necessarily. But at their core is the human comedy which never grows stale or loses its relevance. Shakespeare's <em>MacBeth</em> is such a work. After all, the hunger for power and the willingness to murder in order to obtain it are universal ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33129535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know how truly virtuous the people of Hadleyburg were in the first place (they reminded me of The Flanders Family on The Simpsons without the okeley dokeley's) but they soon succumbed to various vices and I enjoyed the moral of the story. Purity that has not been tested by temptation is not ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52129783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My uber-favorite Mark Twain short story as a stand-alone book.  Nobody does the devil like Twain.  Oh, maybe Ambrose Bierce, but there's a richer quality to the Twain, less bitterness as the topnote.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What some consider corruption may in fact be seen as liberation.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the works of Anton Chekhov, Colette, Henry James, Herman Melville, and Leo Tolstoy. These collectible editions are the first single-volume publications of these classic tales, offering a closer look at this underappreciated literary form ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15734227">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recently reread this and recall why I prefer Mark Twain's short stories.  It is a gem of his of quick humorous yet moral works.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good, very short.  Has some poignant life lessons weaved in there once you get past the irony of the story...]]></body>
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