The Private Life of Adam and Eve: Being Extracts from Their Diaries
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| Author(s): | Mark Twain |
| Illustrator(s): | Lester Ralph F. Strothmann |
| Publisher(s): | Harper & Brothers |
| Year Published: | 1931 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | Fantasy - American Fiction - Novel Humorous |
| Age Range: | Ages 13-18: Young Adult |
| Pages: | 196 |
| OCLC: | 7680832 |
Description
An omnibus edition of Extracts from Adam’s Diary (1904 edition) and Eve’s Diary.
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Extracts from Adam’s Diary Translated from the Original MS (1904)
A satirical look at the Garden of Eden. This version was originally printed in a miscellany The Niagara Book, published for distribution at the 1893 Buffalo, New York World’s Fair and contains references to Niagara Falls. The original version was included in the London edition of Tom Sawyer Detective published in 1897. Read online at archive.org.
Eve’s Diary: Translated from the Original MS (1906)
This fictional account of life in the Garden of Eden and afterward is not as cynical as Twain’s other writings on the subject. Read online at Hathitrust.
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