Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: film is set in New York, Fact2: Maxwell Perkins lives in cottage just outside city, Fact3: Wolfe 's relationship with Aline Bernstein is tested after publication of Wolfe 's novel, Fact4: Max manages to publish Wolfe 's second novel Of Time and River after exhausting revision work, Fact5: Thomas follows events thanks to news received from Max
Output (English): The film is set in New York in 1929. Maxwell Perkins, a Scribners successful editor and discoverer of talented authors such as Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, lives in a cottage just outside the city with his wife and five daughters. One day, in his office, he reads the drafts of O Lost, a novel by Thomas Wolfe. Struck by the content, Perkins decides to publish it and begins to collaborate with the author. The novel is eventually published and proves to be a huge success: fifteen thousand copies sold in a single month. Max and Thomas become best friends, while Wolfes relationship with Aline Bernstein, a married woman twenty years older than he, is severely tested after the publication of Wolfes novel. Max manages to publish Wolfes second novel, Of Time and the River, after exhausting revision work that lasts for years. The second novel is also a success. Meanwhile, Thomas is in Paris where he follows the events remotely, thanks to news received from Max. Back in New York, he immediately goes to work, writing his new book. His turbulent character leads him to quarrel with Max, destroying the relationship between the two and making Wolfe turn to another editor. Aline finally leaves Thomas, because he is too selfabsorbed and unable to care for others. After Max has reconciled himself with Thomass absence, a phone call comes from Thomas mother: Thomas has contracted milial tuberculosis. Despite surgery, Thomas shows no signs of improving. After a few weeks he dies, but before that he writes a letter to Max, reaffirming his immense affection for him.