The Diary of Adam and Eve

by Mark Twain, John Updike (Foreword by)

Overview

Written in diary form, The Diary of Adam and Eve is an ingenious, witty, and ultimately delightful retelling of the dawn of human creation with many a grain of truth for today's gender disputes. Master storyteller Mark Twain hilariously recreates the very first days, portraying Adam as something of a recluse, and a man who is ill prepared for the arrival of Eve, a talkative, emotional, and highly charged female. Yet in time, and after many moments of conflict, they begin to learn to live together and come to realize that men and women can, in fact, exist in harmony.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781843910053
Publisher:	Hesperus Press
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Series:	Hesperus Classics
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist noted for the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has been called "The Great American Novel") and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among many other books. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and he spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before finding fame as a writer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	The Diary of Adam and Eve
Part I	Extracts from Adam's Diary	3
Part II	Eve's Diary	19
	Extract from Eve's Autobiography	41
	Passage from Eve's Autobiography	57
	That Day in Eden	63
	Eve Speaks	71
	Adam's Soliloquy	77
	A Monument to Adam	87
	Note on the text	93
	Biographical note	95