The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The mysterious story of Benjamin Batton "is one of the most famous fantastic stories of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, which he called the" fairy tales of the jazz century ": a man was born 70 -year -old and lived a life on the contrary, having traveled from an old man to a baby. The author wrote about the plan of this unusual work: "The idea of ​​the plot was born from Mark Twain’s remark about how sorry that the best part of life passes closer to the beginning, and the worst is closer to the end. My experiment was hardly possible to fully pay tribute to this idea over one person in the very ordinary world. ”
The book also included stories in the style of "Tales of the century Jazz" "The First of May" and "Oh, a red witch!".
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