Extracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms.

by Mark Twain

Overview

"This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this; I am not used to company. I wish it would

stay with the other animals."

-Mark Twain, Extracts from Adam's Diary (1906)

Extracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms. (1906), by Mark Twain, is a comedic account of the biblical Book of Genesis, narrated in the first person by Adam in his diary. This story describes how Eve moves into the Garden of Eden, and how Adam must deal with "this new creature with the long hair."

This jacketed hardcover replica of the original edition of Extracts from Adam's Diary, with unique illustrations by Frederick Strothmann, offers a wonderful and humorous read.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646793440
Publisher:	Cosimo Classics
Publication date:	01/01/1904
Pages:	98
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Author Bio MARK TWAIN (1835-1910), pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer who became one of America's greatest and most popular writers. Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, the state which influenced much of his writing. Twain acquired fame for his travel stories such as Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his boyhood adventure novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut