On the 100th anniversary of the death of Mark Twain in 2010, Libros del Zorro Rojo published a special edition of The Adán and Eva Diaries illuminated by the legendary cartoonist Francisco Meléndez, an essential figure in contemporary illustration in Spain; this work is now republished for the enjoyment of readers in a new format.

Since its original publication in 1906, The Adam and Eve Diaries have not lost their currency. His survival lies in a powerful combination of humor and tenderness: a grace built on the basis of fine ironies, a candor that recreates the most primitive innocence.

For Twain, Eva is the one in charge of naming things, and this fact imposes her as the intellectual of the couple. Adam, meanwhile, senses and resigns himself to his limits —«The new creature gives a name to everything that appears before I can protest»—; busy more in contemplation and coveting stillness, he spends his days in the preparation of shelters; in obtaining food; or foreseeing catastrophes —«She says that the serpent advises her to try the fruit of that tree and says that the result will be a noble, beautiful and grandiose education […]. I advised her to stay away from the tree. She said that she wouldn't. She foresees problems. I will emigrate."

As María Caballero Wangüemert points out, in The Adam and Eve Diaries, «Twain inverts the biblical account where the man organizes creation and names beings in the divine image and likeness. The woman has taken power; Twain accuses the American suffragism of the XIX, he moves from the patriarchal parameters, but, as a man, he assumes the incipient criticism of the future feminine revolution».

"A text —wrote Borges— is also what time makes of it." Read for more than a century, these diaries from paradise still shine for the ingenuity of their fireproof humor.