is coexistent with the publication of Twain's tale of exposed hypocrisy, the townspeople remembering his visit and noting the parallel situations. There are some interesting and provocative parallels between Twain's Oberlin experiences and the Hadleyburg of fiction". The town of Oberlin had been founded as a religious and educational settlement in 1833, and is and was known as an educational and religious center. Nye says that Twain read three stories that were received coolly by most of his Oberlin audience: "King Solomon" (an excerpt from Huckleberry Finn, ch. 14); "The Tragic Tale of a Fishwife," an excerpt from A Tramp Abroad; and "A Trying Situation." The fishwife tale is from Appendix D in A Tramp Abroad, subtitled "The Awful German Language." Vienna connection Twain lived in Austria from 1897 to 1899. John Sutton Tuckey wrote in Mark Twain and Little Satan that "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" (together with the "Eseldorf" version of The Mysterious Stranger and "Stirring Times in Austria") "all had a common origin in Twain's response to the events of his first two months in Vienna—particularly those that occurred on the floor of the Imperial Parliament". What is meant are parliament obstructions and riots following the adoption of Badeni language laws. References External links The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - in an easy to read, page by page format. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - The man that corrupted Hadleyburg on OpenLibrary.org Short stories by Mark Twain 1899 short stories Works originally published in Harper's Magazine Harper & Brothers books 1900 short story collections Fiction about the Devil Short stories adapted into films