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."

I went away and sat on the moss-bank with my feet in the water. It is where I go when I hunger for companionship, some one to look at, some one to talk to. It is not enough—that lovely white body painted there in the pool—but it is something, and something is better than utter loneliness. It talks when I talk; it is sad when I am sad; it comforts me with its sympathy; it says, "Do not be downhearted, you poor friendless girl; I will be your friend." It is a good friend to me, and my only one; it is my sister.

The first time that she forsook me! ah, I shall never forget that—never, never. My heart was lead in my body! I said, "She was all I had, and now she is gone!" In my despair I said, "Break, my heart; I cannot bear my life any more!" and hid my face in my hands, and there was no solace for me. And when I took them away, after a little, there she was again, white and shining and beautiful, and I sprang into her arms!

I had to have company—I was made for it, I think—so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politiest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose. I think they are perfect gentlemen. All these days we have had such good times, and it hasn't been lonesome for me, ever. Lonesome! No, I should say not. Why, there's always a swarm of them around—sometimes as much as four or five acres—you can't count them; and when you stand on a rock in the midst and look out over the furry expanse, it is so mottled and splashed and gay with color and frisking sheen and sun-flash, and so rippled with stripes, that you might think it was a lake, only you know it isn't; and there's storms of sociable birds, and hurricanes of whirring wings; and when the sun strikes all that feathery commotion, you have a blazing up of all the colors you can think of, enough to put your eyes out.

Eve's Diary is a fanciful account of the regular diary entries of Eve, the first woman of the Bible. The diary begins when Eve is one day old. She is greatly curious about her surroundings, and observes the stars, the moon, and the mountains.

Soon she discovers another human being, Adam, and takes to following him around. He initially ignores her, and she does her best to get his attention. Eventually, they become friends, and she begins naming everything she sees around her.

When Adam ignores her, Eve seeks solace with her "sister"—her reflection in a pool of water. Eve then experiments with fire, which she uses to accidentally start a forest fire. The fire leads her to an unwelcome discovery, the feelings of fear.

After an excerpt from Extracts From Adam's Diary, Eve is going on long journeys away from Adam with her animal friends. She is intensely curious about all that she sees around her.

The diary then jumps forward to the future, after the fall of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve are now a loving couple, and Eve ruminates on the nature of her love for Adam. She decides that she loves him because he is hers and he is masculine.

The diary concludes 40 years later, when Eve is considering her death. She decides that she would want to die first because Adam is stronger and she couldn't live without him. The final scene has Adam's thought at Eve's graveside: Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.