In The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us (Penguin Press, 320 pp., ***½ out of four stars), best-selling author Bruce Feiler makes a convincing case that mankind still has much to learn from the ...

On Eve as the first teacher, and an equal to Adam as they leave the Garden of Eden "What is powerful about this story is when you go back, you realize, we have not really been reading this story.

Adam, in Twain’s telling, is initially uncomfortable with Eve. “It used to be so pleasant and quiet here,” he says. “I foresee trouble. Will emigrate.” Eve is equally unimpressed with Adam.