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Diaries of Adam and Eve (1904,1906) by Mark Twain and Shelley Fisher Fishkin (1996, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195101529
ISBN-139780195101522
eBay Product ID (ePID)1829277
Product Key Features
Book TitleDiaries of Adam and Eve (19041906)
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
TopicAmerican / General, Literary
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction
AuthorMark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Book SeriesThe ^Aoxford Mark Twain Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-014732
TitleLeadingThe
SynopsisThese witty and whimsical diaries reflect both Twain's belief in women's equality and his irreverent views of conventional religion. Extracts from Adam's Diary was published first, in 1904 with Fred Strothmann's humorous cartoons of supposedly ancient stone carvings on every left-hand page. Here Twain has a field day with the story of Adam and Eve, playfully placing the Garden of Eden at Niagara Falls, "the honeymoon capital of the world." A companion piece, Eve's Diary was published in 1906, accompanied by the stunning line drawings of Lester Ralph; it was banned in Worcester, Massachusetts, because of its supposedly pornographic illustrations of a prelapsarian Eve. Eve's Diary is both a love story and Clemens' loving eulogy to his deceased wife: "Wheresoever she was, there was Eden." The two diaries never appeared in one volume during Twain's lifetime, despite Twain's desire that they be republished together someday, as they are here, in their entirety, for the first time. Now readers can delight in comparing the decidedly different takes Adam and Eve have on the same memorable events., Combined in one volume these whimsical diaries are at bottom both an argument for women's equality and an irreverent look at conventional religion.
LC Classification NumberPS1309 1996b
As told toSkandera-Trombley, Laura E.
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