Mark Twain

Eve's Diary, Complete Mark Twain

Mark Twain is best known for his novels and short stories. Twain uses his incredible whit to depict life in America. Supposedly pages from Eve's (Garden of Eden) Diary Translated from the Original. Eve expresse her thoughts about Eden and its environment and about Adam. Eve's first diary entry begins: "SATURDAY.--I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so, for if there was a day-before-yesterday I was not there when it happened, or I should remember it. It could be, of course, that it did happen, and that I was not noticing. Very well; I will be very watchful now, and if any day-before-yesterdays happen I will make a note of it. It will be best to start right and not let the record get confused, for some instinct tells me that these details are going to be important to the historian some day. For I feel like an experiment, I feel exactly like an experiment; it would be impossible for a person to feel more like an experiment than I do, and so I am coming to feel convinced that that ".