Dec 24, 2009

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg | Summary

Part 1
An omniscient narrator opens the story with a description of Hadleyburg, U.S.A., as "honest," "upright," and very proud of its "unsmirched" reputation. The town enjoys national renown for protecting every citizen against all temptation from infancy through death. Appropriately, the town motto reads "Lead us not into temptation.'' The tale then segues to the bitter thoughts of an "offended stranger,’’ who has nursed a grudge against the town during the past year for an unnamed, unrequited offense. Rather than murder the one or two individuals...