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The most complete edition of Twain's two stories, it uses Mark Twain's preferred text and includes passages not previously included--and not available in any other version. The editor's afterword tells how Twain came to write the "Diaries," which are recognized today as his most... Read Full Overview

"Good deal of fog this morning. I do not go out in the fog myself," notes Adam in his diary, adding, "The new creature does. It goes out in all weathers. And talks. It used to be so pleasant and quiet here."
Adam has a lot to learn about Eve, and even more from her,... Read Full Overview

This volume presents two comic short stories written in the style of a diary kept by the first woman, Eve, and the first man, Adam.

The most hilarious, charming, and entertaining of Mark Twain's later works, The Diaries of Adam and Eve collects in one volume "Extracts from Adam's Diary," first published in 1904, and "Eve's Diary," published in 1906 after Olivia Clemens's death. Ultimately an endearing love... Read Full Overview

In this witty, charming work Mark Twain retells the Garden of Eden story in the first person, presenting the separate perspectives in diary form of the legendary father and mother of the human race. In Twain's version Adam comes across as the original couch potato, grumpily uninterested... Read Full Overview

The great American humorist's translations of journals by the first man and woman offer a comic he said/she said narrative. An irreverent look at conventional religion, the book presents a thoughtful argument for the equality of the sexes. This special hardcover edition features... Read Full Overview

El Diario de Ad n y Eva es una recreaci n de la vida de la primera pareja de seres humanos. Aunque el autor no hubiera se alado a qui n corresponde cada parte, podr amos reconocerlo perfectamente; creados por un mismo artista, ambos personajes son absolutamente diferentes entre... Read Full Overview

These witty and whimsical diaries reflect both Twain's belief in women's equality and his irreverent views of conventional religion. Extracts from Adam's Diary was published first, in 1904 with Fred Strothmann's humorous cartoons of supposedly ancient stone carvings on every... Read Full 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... Read Full Overview

An American legend rewrites a remarkably contemporary Adam and Eve. In tackling the first three chapters of Genesis, Twain creates a story of The First Couple who are psychologically familiar to even 21st Century Americans. He wrote the Diaries as a tribute to his own marriage,... Read Full Overview

Comedy

Characters: 1 male 1 female

Exterior Set

Originally broadcast on American Playhouse this delightful adaptation is set in a Victorian garden and is structured as a series of diary entries by Adam and Eve. The play also works as a reader's theatre... Read Full Overview

Mark Twain's gloriously funny Diary of Adam and Eve, which John Updike described as a paradigm of the relations between sexes, is presented here with a number of other Twain pieces on our two oldest ancestors, showing the writer's interest in this most famous episode of the... Read Full Overview

Combined in one volume these whimsical diaries are at bottom both an argument for women's equality and an irreverent look at conventional religion.

With all his trademark genius and charm, Mark Twain presents in this illustrated book the struggles and adjustments that accompany life as a couple something that is not always easy, even in Paradise. In a text that s entertaining and profound in equal measure, Adam and Eve introduce... Read Full Overview