The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
and six other stories
$25.13
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
23 November 2008
Summary
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Timeless Tale of Reverse Aging
‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, originally published in 1922, is a captivating story. Born a full-grown man with a long, smoke-colored beard, requiring a cane, and fond of cigars, Benjamin Button is a truly peculiar infant.
As Benjamin grows younger with each passing year, his family grapples with the bizarre reality of his reverse aging. This imaginative fable of ageing is accompanied by other intr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141190198 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141190191 |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Author: | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 23 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 158g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 11mm |
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‘His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings’ - Ernest Hemingway
‘His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings’ - Ernest Hemingway
About The Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The Love of the Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work), plus six volumes of short stories. Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940.
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