The Diaries of Adam and Eve: Translated by Mark Twain - Softcover

Mark Twain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965881199 ISBN 13: 9780965881197

Publisher: Fair Oaks Press, 2015

Synopsis

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 personal works of fiction.

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Mark Twain (1835-1910) remains the most American of writers. His Huckleberry Finn continues to excite controversy as it engages new generations of readers.

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Wednesday (Adam): I wish it would not talk; it is always talking. Monday (Eve): This morning I told him my name, hoping it would interest him. But he did not care for it. It is strange. If he should tell me his name, I would care. I think it would be pleasanter in my ears than any other sound.

He talks very little. Perhaps it is because he is not bright and is sensitive about it and wishes to conceal it. It is such a pity that he should feel so, for brightness is nothing. It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches, and riches enough. And that without it, intellect is poverty.

Saturday (Adam): She fell into the pond yesterday when she was looking at herself in it, which she is always doing. She nearly strangled and said it was most uncomfortable.

This made her sorry for the creatures which live in there, which she calls fish, for she continues to fasten names onto things that don't need them and don't come when they are called by them, which is a matter of no consequence to her, as she is such an unreflecting and irrelevant halfblown bud anyway; so she got a lot of them out and brought them in last night and put them in my bed to keep warm, but I have noticed them now and then all day, and I don't know that they are any happier there than they were before, only quieter.

Year Twelve (Eve): Several days ago, little Abel found a clover with four leaves. Naturally it caused great excitement. Adam could hardly believe his eyes, yet there it was: that impossible thing. There it was--and moreover, possible. Adam said there might be others; it wasn't likely, but there might be. So the first thing in the morning, we started, the eager children scampering on ahead, Cain and Abel in the lead, little Gladys and Edwina toddling after. . . .

Year Twelve (Adam): After all these years, I see I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the garden with her than inside it without her.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fair Oaks Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965881199
• ISBN 13: 9780965881197
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Michael Mojher
• Number of pages: 100
• Editor: Don Roberts