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    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Story That Inspired The Movie Starring Brad Pitt)
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Story That Inspired The Movie Starring Brad Pitt)
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Story That Inspired The Movie Starring Brad Pitt)
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    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Story That Inspired The Movie Starring Brad Pitt)

    By Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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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 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."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJA
    Release dateJun 7, 2018
    ISBN9782291036067
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Story That Inspired The Movie Starring Brad Pitt)
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    Francis Scott Fitzgerald

    Francis Scott Fitzgerald (Saint Paul, 1896-Hollywood, 1940) es considerado uno de los más importantes escritores estadounidenses del siglo XX y el portavoz de la generación perdida. El gran Gatsby se publicó por primera vez en 1925 y fue inmediatamente celebrada como una obra maestra por autores como T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein o Edith Wharton.

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