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 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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7 Best Short Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Pat Hobby Stories
Der große Gatsby
The Jelly-Bean :
Winter Dreams
The Great Gatsby
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Absolution
The Adjuster
The Sensible Thing
The Beautiful and Damned : A Tale of Love, Wealth, and Self-Destruction
The Beautiful and Damned (Part III) : As Beauty Breaks, the Truth Finally Emerges