The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Selected Tales of the Jazz Age Сollection. Адаптированная книга для чтения на английском языке. Уровень B1

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Френсис Скотт Фицджеральд. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Selected Tales of the Jazz Age Сollection. Адаптированная книга для чтения на английском языке. Уровень B1

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

May Day

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VIII

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XI

«O Russet Witch!»

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Vocabulary

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In 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, the first cries of the young are usually heard in a hospital, if possible, a fashionable one. So Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. It will never be known whether this fact had any influence on the astonishing story I am going to present.

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

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Mr. Hart looked at him. «Surely, Mr. Button, you don't expect me to believe that».

«I am eighteen», he repeated.

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