EXTRACTS FROM ADAMS DIARY (1904) and EVES DIARY (1906) are essentially send-ups of the scripture, in which Twain parodied Genesis, the parables of creation and original sin, and Eves role in the fall of humankind. In EXTRACTS FROM ADAMS DIARY, published with Fred Strothmanns 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. EVES DIARY, accompanied by the stunning line drawings of Lester Ralph, was Twains 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 Adams tribute to Eve at the end of Eves Diary reads, Wheresoever she was, there was Eden. Eves story is tender throughout and focuses on the more humorous aspects of Adam and Eves relationship and eventual marriage. Like Adams story it lacks the darker implications of the other biblical pieces Twain wrote during the last decade of his life.
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