Best Seller The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ( space, science fiction, classic, romance, space opera, thriller, suspense, adventure, experimental )

by Resounding Wind ebook

2021-04-03 19:18:03

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 scarcel... Read 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 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 pieces of cheese in my life but of all the pieces of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest piece. I hate to waste a piece of stationary on you but I will. Less

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PublisherResounding Wind Publishing
Publication date August 12, 2014
ISBN2940150676923

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