title: The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg (The Art of the Novella)
author:  Mark Twain 
description: "I wanted them all, even those I'd already read."<br /> <b>Ron Rosenbaum, </b><i><b>The New York Observer</b></i><br /> <br /> "Small wonders."<br /> <b></b><i><b>Time Out London</b></i><br /> <br /> <i>"</i>[F]irst-rateastutely selected and attractively packagedindisputably great works."<br /> <b>Adam Begley, </b><i><b>The New York Observer</b></i><br /> <br /> "Ive always been haunted by Bartleby, the proto-slacker. But its the handsomely minimalist cover of the Melville House edition that gets me here, one of many in the small publishers fine 'Art of the Novella' series."<br /> <b></b><i><b>The New Yorker</b></i><br /> <br /> "The Art of the Novella series is sort of an anti-Kindle. What these singular, distinctive titles celebrate is book-ness. They're slim enough to be portable but showy enough to be conspicuously consumedtiny little objects that demand to be loved for the commodities they are."<br /> <b>KQED (NPR San Francisco)</b><br /> <br /> "Some like it short, and if you're one of them, Melville House, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has a line of books for you... elegant-looking paperback editions ...a good read in a small package."<br /> <b></b><i><b>The Wall Street Journal</b></i>
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  # Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Mark Twain
  
  
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  THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ CLARENCE AND ROSANNAH
  
  
  ETHELTON
  
  
  ON THE DECAY OF THE ART OF LYING
  
  
  ABOUT MAGNANIMOUS-INCIDENT LITERATURE
  
  
  THE GRATEFUL POODLE
  
  
  THE BENEVOLENT AUTHOR
  
  
  THE GRATEFUL HUSBAND
  
  
  PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH
  
  
  THE GREAT REVOLUTION IN PITCAIRN
  
  
  THE CANVASSER'S TALE
  
  
  AN ENCOUNTER WITH AN INTERVIEWER
  
  
  PARIS NOTES
  
  
  LEGEND OF SAGENFELD, IN GERMANY
  
  
  SPEECH ON THE BABIES
  
  
  SPEECH ON THE WEATHER
  
  
  CONCERNING THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE
  
  
  ROGERS
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ CLARENCE AND ROSANNAH ETHELTON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  It was well along in the forenoon of a bitter winter's day. The
  
  
  town of Eastport, in the state of Maine, lay buried under a deep snow
  
  
  that was newly fallen. The customary bustle in the streets was
  
  
  wanting. One could look long distances down them and see nothing but
  