{"product_id":"2940014049368","title":"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Francis Scott Fitzgerald","description":"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.\" \u003cbr\u003eThe story was published in \"Collier's\" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: \u003cbr\u003e\"Sir-- \u003cbr\u003eI 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.\"","brand":"RoundTable Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070578573552,"sku":"2940014049368","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014049368_p0.jpg?v=1763599685","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014049368","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}