Excerpts from Adam's Diary by Mark Twain

Published: Aug. 29, 2022, 8:50 p.m.

b"What must life have been like in the Garden of Eden for the first man, Adam, and that new creature who suddenly appeared in his idyllic life? Well, left to the imagination of Mark Twain, the story takes a fanciful and funny early 20th-century take on Genesis.\\nExtracts from Adam\\u2019s Diary was written in 1904, the final decade of Samuel Clemens's (aka Mark Twain\\u2019s) life, and was published as a short book. The character of Adam is obviously based on Twain himself, and Eve was his wife Lily. Shortly after writing this story, Lily died. This may have led to Twain penning \\u201cThe Diary of Eve,\\u201d which was first published in 1905.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"