Загадочная история Бенджамина Баттона / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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Френсис Скотт Фицджеральд. Загадочная история Бенджамина Баттона / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. by F. Scott Fitzgerald

the cut-glass bowl. by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night. by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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In 1860 it was proper to be born at home. Now, so I am told, children are usually born in fashionable hospitals. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided that their first baby should be born in a hospital. Whether it played any role in the astonishing story I am about to tell we will never know.

I shall tell you what happened, and let you judge for yourself.

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“Come along!” he said sternly.

His son took the hand trustingly. “What are you going to call me, dad?” he quavered as they walked from the nursery—”just ‘baby’ for a while? till you think of a better name?”

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