The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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 see…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-2-3222-3793-7
- EAN: 9782322237937
- Produktnummer: 34414128
- Verlag: Books on Demand
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 39 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 584 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled Lost Generation, Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.
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