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Article: Mark Twain. The Diaries of Adam & Eve Translated by Mark Twain [1997].(Book Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 Society for Utopian Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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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