| Eves Diary Contributor(s): Cedeno, Yasmira (Editor), Twain, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1547083395 ISBN-13: 9781547083398 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - Humor |
| Physical Information: 0.07" H x 6" W x 9" (0.13 lbs) 34 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Eve's Diary" is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in 1905. It is written in the style of a diary kept by the first woman in the biblical creation story, Eve, and is claimed to be "translated from the original MS." The "plot" of this story is the first-person account of Eve from her creation up to her burial by her mate Adam, including meeting and getting to know him, and exploring the world around her, Eden. The story then jumps 40 years into the future after the Fall and expulsion from Eden. It is one of a series of books Twain wrote concerning the story of Adam and Eve. The book may have been written as a posthumous love-letter to Mark Twain's wife Olivia Langdon Clemens, or Livy, who died in June 1904, just before the story was written. Mark Twain is quoted as saying, "'Eve's Diary' is finished - I've been waiting for her to speak, but she doesn't say anything more." The story ends with Adam's speaking at Eve's grave, "Wherever she was, there was Eden." |