Eve's Diary, Complete (Illustrated)

This ebook contains the original beautiful illustrations from Mark Twain’s original version.

This comic short story, written in the form of a diary, is Twain’s account of the story of Eve and the Garden of Eden. it is one of a series of books by the author on the story of Adam and Eve. Following the biblical book of Genesis, in Eve’s Diary the author gives a humorous account of the events from Eve’s introduction into the garden, through encountering Adam, eating the apple…and is claimed to be “translated from the original MS.”. The story jumps 40 years into the future after the expulsion from Eden, and ends with the burial of Eve.

Eve’s Diary was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of magazine Harper’s Bazaar magazne, and in book format in following June 1906. It has often been considered a posthumous love-letter to Twain’s wife Olivia, or Livy, who died in June 1904, just before the story was written. Twain is quoted as saying, “Eve’s Diary is finished — I’ve been waiting for her to speak, but she doesn’t say anything more.” The story ends with Adam’s speaking at Eve’s grave, “Wherever she was, there was Eden.”