Eve's Diary

The tenderest thing he ever wrote, and the funniest, and, at the last, the saddest.

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About this edition

“I am almost a whole day old, now,” Eve writes on the first page of the world, and sets about naming the stars and the animals, delighting in her own reflection, and, at last, falling in love with the baffled, grumbling creature she finds in the Garden. Adam, for his part, rather wishes she would talk less.

Told in their two diaries, it is a comedy of the first man and the first woman until it becomes something else. Mark Twain wrote Eve’s Diary in 1905, the year after the death of his wife, and it is impossible not to hear his own grief in Adam’s last words at her grave: “Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.”

Paired here with Extracts from Adam’s Diary, complete and unabridged, bound behind an original painting.

Details

• Mark Twain (1835–1910)
• Eve’s Diary with Extracts from Adam’s Diary, complete and unabridged
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback, 6 × 9, 84 pages