Book MARK this diary. Review on Diary of Adam and Eve, The - Mark Twain

A must read for Mark Twain fans. If you have enjoyed the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, you are sure to enjoy the ones of your ancestors - Adam and Eve. This book is a repository of the mental diary, which both Adam and Eve maintained about each other and about their world.

Mark Twain takes the reader to the Garden of Eden to record the escapades of Adam and Eve. Only the recording is done by the first generation of mankind themselves. This book is a lively and humourous account of the meeting and living-in of Adam and Eve. Their thoughts about each other are jotted down in great detail, highlighting the fact that women indeed are from Venus and men from Mars. The life and struggles of both Adam and Eve are portrayed in a delightfully light and easy language – their struggles to live on a lonely planet without predecessors, their struggles to understand each other and most importantly their struggle to live with each other. They also attempt at living apart, but fail miserably. Interestingly, Mark Twain handles the fall of Adam and Eve and their exile from the Garden of Eden with comparative ease and no complications. The central vein of the book continues to be humour and a touch of the unreal. The book ends with Adam re-visiting his legacy – the mankind in the 20th century. He reminiscences his life with Eve and wonders how happy she would be to see the vast population of their kind. This book promises good reading and a few in-depth insights into the world of man, woman and God.