{"product_id":"9780141190198-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button","title":"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd Six Other Stories\u003cbr\u003eFull grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevealing the breadth of F. Scott Fitzgerald's gift for the short story form, this Penguin Classics edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e spans multiple genres and styles to dazzling effect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse. In this imaginative fable of ageing and the other stories collected here - including 'The Cut-Glass Bowl' in which an ill-meant gift haunts a family's misfortunes, 'The Four Fists' where a man's life shaped by a series of punches to his face, and the revelry, mobs and anguish of 'May Day' - F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unmatched gift as a writer of short stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', originally published in 1922, was made into a major motion picture directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e is considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, dubbed 'the first American Flapper', and their traumatic marriage and Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories, Fitzgerald wrote five novels\u003ci\u003e This Side of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTender is the Night\u003c\/i\u003e and, incomplete at the time of his death, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Tycoon\u003c\/i\u003e. After his death \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003esaid of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a \"generation\" '.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button,\u003c\/i\u003e you might like Fitzgerald's \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A master of the American short story'\u003cbr\u003eThe Philadelphia Enquirer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings' \u003cbr\u003eErnest Hemingway\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30341092540513,"sku":"9780141190198","price":7.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32390935.jpg?v=1741173497","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141190198-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}