Extracts from Adam's Diary

A new, non-illustrated edition of Mark Twain's 1904 satire, Excerpts from Adam's Diary -- his comic look at life in the Garden of Eden from the perspective of the first man, Adam. While set in the Book of Genesis, the story is not a satire of religion or creation, but of human relationships, marriage, and fatherhood. This short work is one of he finest examples of Twain's ironic wit and continues to find an audience over a century later. Mark Twain, the pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910) was an American writer, remembered by many critics as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced" and, in the words of William Faulkner, "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) -- often called "The Great American Novel" -- The Prince and the Pauper (1881), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), among other works.