F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (eBook, ePUB)

And Two Other Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Born an old man, Benjamin Button lived a very curious life, backwards

When Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy is a weathered, aged man, for all appearances no younger than seventy years old. As time goes by, young Benjamin comes to no longer require a cane, his hair ceases to be grey, his limbs become less frail, his wrinkles less deep, but still the world around him fails to come to terms with his oddness, as he ages towards infancy and beyond ...

This remarkable, imaginative tale is here accompanied by a story of the desperate measures required by limitless wealth, and another about the lengths (and cuts) a girl is willing to go to for popularity.

Includes A Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Bernice Bobs Her Hair.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141961583
• Artikelnr.: 39188244

Autorenporträt

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. 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): six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.

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