Twain M.: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories 

One of Twain`s most celebrated novellas, `The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg` is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story in the Bible, in which the author, mocking the supposed honesty and incorruptibility of the inhabitants of an imaginary American town, shows how man is fundamentally bad and cannot resist the temptations of gold.