7, ISBN: 1230001213706

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… More...

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." Classics, Fiction & Literature, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald~~Classics~~Fiction & Literature~~1230001213706, en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1230001213706, MARQUES PUBLISHERS, 07/03/2016, , , , MARQUES PUBLISHERS, 07/03/2016<

7, ISBN: 1230001213706

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… More...

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. Classics, Fiction & Literature, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald~~Classics~~Fiction & Literature~~1230001213706, en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1230001213706, MARQUES PUBLISHERS, 07/03/2016, , , , MARQUES PUBLISHERS, 07/03/2016<

2007, ISBN: 1230001213706

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… More...

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 scar Classics, Fiction & Literature, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald~~Classics~~Fiction & Literature~~1230001213706, en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1230001213706, MARQUES PUBLISHERS, 07/03/2016, , , , MARQUES PUBLISHERS, 07/03/2016<