Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Button is born as an elderly man and, as the years pass, becomes younger while those around him grow older. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America, the story follows Benjamin as he navigates the challenges and peculiarities of living life in reverse. As Benjamin's journey unfolds, readers are drawn into a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary and the boundaries of age and experience are challenged. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a timeless classic that invites readers to ponder the complexities of life and the inevitability of change in a way that is both poignant and unforgettable. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [1896-1940] was an American author, born in St. Paul, Minnesota. His legendary marriage to Zelda Montgomery, along with their acquaintances with notable figures such as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, and their lifestyle in 1920s Paris, has become iconic. A master of the short story genre, it is logical that his most famous novel is also his shortest: The Great Gatsby [1925].
Download or read book Tales of the Jazz Age written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evoking the Jazz-Age world that would later appear in his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, this essential Fitzgerald collection contains some of the writer’s most famous and celebrated stories. In “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” an extraordinary child is born an old man, growing younger as the world ages around him. “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” a fable of excess and greed, shows two boarding school classmates mired in deception as they make their fortune in gemstones. And in the classic novella “May Day,” debutantes dance the night away as war veterans and socialists clash in the streets of New York. Opening the book is a playful and irreverent set of notes from the author, documenting the real-life pressures and experiences that shaped these stories, from his years at Princeton to his cravings for luxury to the May Day Riots of 1919. Taken as a whole, this collection brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era. Its 1922 publication furthered Fitzgerald's reputation as a master storyteller, and its legacy staked his place as the spokesman of an age.
Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Coyote Canyon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most memorable short stories. The protagonist, Benjamin Button, is born an old man and ages in reverse until he becomes a baby and then finally vanishes from the earth. In a short introduction to the story, Fitzgerald wrote: "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.' "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was the inspiration for the major motion picture of the same name and remains one of Fitzgerald's most haunting and beautiful tales. This collection also includes three other Jazz Age tales by Fitzgerald.
Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Francis Scott Fitzgerald written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in Colliers Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age, which is occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep during child activities. When Benjamin turns 12, the Button family realizes that he is aging backwards. At the age of 18, Benjamin enrolls in Yale College, but is sent home by officials, who think he is a 50-year-old lunatic. In 1880, when Benjamin is 20, his father gives him a control of Roger Button & Co. Wholesale Hardware. He meets the young Hildegarde Moncrief, a daughter of General Moncrief, and falls in love with her. Hildegarde mistakes Benjamin for a 50-year-old brother of Roger Button; she prefers older men and marries him six months later, but remains ignorant of his condition. Years later, Benjamin's business has been successful, but he is tired of Hildegarde because her beauty has faded and she nags him. Bored at home, he enlists in the SpanishAmerican War in 1898 and achieves great triumph in the military, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He retires from the army to focus on his company, and receives a medal.
Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Francis Scott Fitzgerald written by Francis Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Francis Scott Fitzgerald written by Francis Fitzgerald and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-18 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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." The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: "Sir-- I 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."
Download or read book The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: "Sir--I 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.
Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button written by F. Scott F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-22 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in Colliers Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age, which is occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep during child activities. When Benjamin turns 12, the Button family realizes that he is aging backwards. At the age of 18, Benjamin enrolls in Yale College, but is sent home by officials, who think he is a 50-year-old lunatic. In 1880, when Benjamin is 20, his father gives him a control of Roger Button & Co. Wholesale Hardware. He meets the young Hildegarde Moncrief, a daughter of General Moncrief, and falls in love with her. Hildegarde mistakes Benjamin for a 50-year-old brother of Roger Button; she prefers older men and marries him six months later, but remains ignorant of his condition. Years later, Benjamin's business has been successful, but he is tired of Hildegarde because her beauty has faded and she nags him. Bored at home, he enlists in the Spanish-American War in 1898 and achieves great triumph in the military, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He retires from the army to focus on his company, and receives a medal.
Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Apt 3W written by Gabriel Brownstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine Salingeresque stories about New Yorkers and their marvelous eccentricities.
Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button written by F Scott Fitzgerald and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic short story of a man born in his 70's who ages backward as those around him age in the more normal direction. Both humorous and heartbreaking at times, The Curious Case of Benjamin was the basis for the David Fincher movie of the same name, though the movie differs in several key ways from Fitzgerald's original story.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."
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Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Illustrated written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-17 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories. In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life -- he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and, as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse.
Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button written by Francis Scott Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic short story of a man born in his 70's who ages backward as those around him age in the more normal direction. Both humorous and heartbreaking at times, The Curious Case of Benjamin was the basis for the David Fincher movie of the same name, though the movie differs in several key ways from Fitzgerald's original story.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."
Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Fab. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of stories by Fitzgerald, one of America's greatest writers, including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. This book includes 2 books: Flappers and Philosophers, with eight stories, and The Jazz Age Tales, with eleven stories.
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Download or read book The Short Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together, these forty-three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless.
Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F Scott Fitzgerald written by F. Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
