Eve's Diary

First published in the 1905 Christmas issue of Harper's Magazine.			Reprinted in 1906 in a 106-page, illustrated volume by Harper & Brothers.
Written specifically as a companion piece to Excerpts from Adam's Diary, released by Harper's in 1904.				A Worcester, Mass., library banned the book in 1906 because of the supposed pornographic nature of the illustrations.
Eve's Diary forms part of Twain's so-called Adamic Diaries, along with the works That Day In Eden, Eve Speaks, Adam's Soliloquy, and the Autobiograhy of Eve; unlike Adam's Diary and Eve's Diary, the other Adamic Diaries are dark in tone, and satirical of Christianity — they were not published during Twain's lifetime.			It is believed that Mark Twain wrote this book as a love letter to his wife, Livy, who died in June 1904; in a telling admission, Twain said: "Eve's Diary is finished — I've been waiting for her to speak, but she doesn't say anything more.