Diaries of Adam and Eve

Zusatztext The father of American literature. Informationen zum Autor Mark Twain Klappentext Mark Twain's gloriously funny Diary of Adam and Eve, which John Updike described as a paradigm of the relations between sexes, is presented here with a number of other Twain pieces on our two oldest ancestors, showing the writer's interest in this most famous episode of the Bible. By giving a voice to Adam and Eve, and by hitting all the notes on the literary scale - from the intimate to the comical, from the journalistic to the idyllic - Twain displays the brilliance and wit for which he is rightly considered one of the greatest satirists of all time. Zusammenfassung Mark Twain's gloriously funny "Diary of Adam and Eve", which John Updike recently described as 'a paradigm of the relations between sexes', is presented here with a number of other Twain pieces on our two oldest ancestors, showing the writer's interest in this most famous biblical story.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Twain
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.08.2015
• EAN: 9781847494382
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-438-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Alma Classics; Alma Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; sexes; gender; biblical