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Diaries of Adam and Eve

"The foremost man of American letters." Ambrose Bierce

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"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain." Ernest Hemingway

"Adam and Eve... gave Twain a path into intimate feelings unapproached by the beguiling, brusquely fantastic, altogether

masculine yarns that dominate his oeuvre." John Updike

oneworld classics

Diaries of Adam and Eve

Mark Twain

ONEWORLD CLASSICS

oneworld classics ltd

London House 243-253 Lower Mortlake Road Richmond Surrey TW9 2LL United Kingdom

`The Diary of Adam and Eve' first published in 1906 `Extract from Eve's Autobiography' first published in 1962 `Passage from Eve's Autobiography' first published in 1962 `That Day in Eden' first published in 1923 `Eve Speaks' first published in 1923 `Adam's Soliloquy' first published in 1923 `A Monument to Adam' first published in 1906 `Extract from Shem's Diary of 920 ac' first published in 1962 This edition first published by Oneworld Classics Limited in 2009

`Extract from Eve's Autobiography', `Passage from Eve's Autobiography' and `Extract from Shem's Diary of 920 ac' from Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain, edited by Bernard DeVoto Copyright 1938, 1944, 1946, 1959, 1962 by the Mark Twain Company. Copyright 1942 by The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

Printed in Great Britain by CPI Cox & Wyman, Reading, Berkshire

isbn: 978-1-84749-090-2

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Contents

Diaries of Adam and Eve

1

The Diary of Adam and Eve

3

Extract from Eve's Autobiography

31

Passage from Eve's Autobiography

45

That Day in Eden

51

Eve Speaks

59

Adam's Soliloquy

65

A Monument to Adam

73

Extract from Shem's Diary of 920 ac

77

Note on the Text and Illustrations

83

Notes

83

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