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The Complete Diaries of Adam and Eve (Paperback, New)
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The Complete Diaries of Adam and Eve (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R357
Discovery Miles 3 570
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EXTRACTS FROM ADAM S DIARY (1904) and EVE S DIARY (1906) are
essentially send-ups of the scripture, in which Twain parodied
Genesis, the parables of creation and original sin, and Eve s role
in the fall of humankind. In EXTRACTS FROM ADAM S DIARY, published
with Fred Strothmann s humorous cartoons of supposedly ancient
stone carvings on every left-hand page, Twain playfully established
Niagara Falls Park as the setting of the Garden of Eden, the
honeymoon capital of the world. EVE S DIARY, accompanied by the
stunning line drawings of Lester Ralph, was Twain s moving eulogy
to his wife, Livy, who died the previous year. The grief-stricken
Samuel Clemens, in a letter to his brother-in-law, Charles Langdon,
wrote: I am a man without a country. Wherever Livy was that was my
country. Similarly Adam s tribute to Eve at the end of Eve s Diary
reads, Wheresoever she was, there was Eden. Eve s story is tender
throughout and focuses on the more humorous aspects of Adam and Eve
s relationship and eventual marriage. Like Adam s story it lacks
the darker implications of the other biblical pieces Twain wrote
during the last decade of his life.
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