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"Eve's Diary" is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar , in book format as one contribution to a volume entitled "Their Husband's Wives" and then in June 1906 as a standalone book by Harper and Brothers [ 1 ] publishing house.
"Extracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms." is a comic short story by the American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story was first published in The Niagara Book (1893), and was collected in Twain's 1903 book My Debut as a Literary Person with Other Essays and Stories.
"Extracts from Adam's Diary", illustrated by Frederick Strothmann (1904) "Eve's Diary", illustrated by Lester Ralph (1906) "The Private Life of Adam and Eve: Being Extracts from Their Diaries, Translated from the Original Mss." (Harper, 1931), LCCN 31-27192 [2] – posthumous issue of the 1904 and 1906 works bound as one, as Twain had requested in a recently discovered letter [3]
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Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth [Note 1] ... Mark Twain wrote humorous and satirical diaries for Adam and Eve in both "Eve's Diary" (1906) ...
The first act is based on Mark Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve; the second act is based on Frank R. Stockton's "The Lady, or the Tiger?"; the third act is based on Jules Feiffer's Passionella. The working title for the evening of three musicals was Come Back!
With their plan in place, the children wait anxiously as Twain continues the story of Adam and Eve, whose designs bear a striking resemblance to Mark Twain and his wife, Olivia. Twain says, "Wherever she was, there was Eden," and laments her death, wishing to see her again when he meets the comet.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."