The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Contributor(s): Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798720062682 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $5.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
Dewey: 813.52 |
Lexile Measure: 460 |
Physical Information: 0.07" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.13 lbs) 34 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |