Article: Mark Twain. The Diaries of Adam & Eve Translated by Mark Twain [1997].(Book Review)

Ed. Don Roberts. San Francisco: Fair Oaks, 2001. ii + 128 pp. $14.00 (paper).

READERS OF UTOPIAN STUDIES may have already encountered this book as a delightful viewing or listening experience: the readers' theater version performed by Mandy Patinkin and Betty Buckley. Twain scholars can admire Adam & Eve for the biographical insights it offers: the tender passages recounting the death of Abel and the loving epitaph for Eve's grave ("Wheresoever she was: there was Eden" [109]) attest to Twain's deep sense of loss over the deaths of his eldest daughter and his beloved wife Livy. And culture critics, biblical scholars, and history-of-the-book specialists will be ...

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