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Can I read The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on EtoBox?
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Francis Scott Fitzgerald is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button about?
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."
Who reads The Curious Case of Benjamin Button?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- Publisher
- Feedbooks
- Published
- 1922
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Short Stories, Anthology, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.53 / 5 (331 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13