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This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experime… Mehr…

This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books." The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer i This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books." The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: "Sir- I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will. Short Stories, Fiction & Literature, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald~~Short Stories~~Fiction & Literature~~9786050484083, en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 9786050484083, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 07/19/2016, , , , Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 07/19/2016<

ISBN: 9786050484083

This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain´s to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experime… Mehr…

This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain´s to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler´s ´´Note-books.´´ The story was published in ´´Collier´s´´ last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: ´´Sir-- I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will.´´ This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain´s to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler´s ´´Note-books.´´ The story was published in ´´Collier´s´´ last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous E-Book, Francis Scott Fitzgerald<

ISBN: 9786050484083

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