The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button And Other Stories

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180946437
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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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].

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684842505
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Fab
ISBN 13 : 9781609422363
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Gabriel Brownstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393324785
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030777922X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Prakash Book Depot
Publisher : Fingerprint! Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789388810548
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 World's Greatest Short Stories written by Prakash Book Depot and published by Fingerprint! Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short story is one of the finest forms of writing. As short as a paragraph at times, or as lengthy as a novel, short stories are widely read and immensely lauded. Some of the most exceptional writers have dabbled in this form penning beautiful, unforgettable stories. In this carefully-crafted selection, we bring to you some of the greatest writers from around the world-- the iconic storytellers from America, such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, the legendary Grimm brothers from Germany, to the lyrical Rabindranath Tagore from India, and the witty H H Munro from Britain. All these and many more remarkable people come together in this edition . . . and all have stories to tell. An anthology beginning with Aesop's fables-- perhaps the first stories we come across-- and ending with Virginia Woolf's gothic, thrilling ' The Haunted House', 100 World's Greatest Short Stories brings together stories short and sweet, descriptive and lengthy, and stories that can do anything-- from telling a tale to hiding its narrator, from portraying the reality to diving into pure imagination-- and are a must-read for every fiction lover."

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1645176584
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Gatsby and Other Stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, ambition, and wealth take center stage in this collection of classic stories from the Jazz Age. Often described as the “Great American Novel,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is the quintessential story of love, ambition, and wealth in the Roaring Twenties. In the Long Island village of West Egg, the rich and mysterious Jay Gatsby pursues the now-married Daisy Buchanan, whom he last saw five years ago, before amassing his fortune. Along with the eleven short stories from Fitzgerald’s collection Tales of the Jazz Age—including “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”—this Word Cloud edition makes a fine addition to anyone’s bookshelf.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961589
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141039345
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Benjamin Button 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 no longer requires a cane, his hair ceases to be grey, his limbs become less frail, his wrinkles less deep. 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 short stories "Bernice Bobs her Hair" and "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unmatched gift as a writer of short stories.

Author : Andrew Sean Greer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374706301
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confessions of Max Tivoli written by Andrew Sean Greer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today Show Book Club Pick An extraordinarily haunting love story told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards We are each the love of someone's life. So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Max's father declares him a "nisse," a creature of Danish myth, as his baby son has the external physical appearance of an old, dying creature. Max grows older like any child, but his physical age appears to go backward--on the outside a very old man, but inside still a fearful child. The story is told in three acts. First, young Max falls in love with a neighborhood girl, Alice, who ages as normally as any of us. Max, of course, does not; as a young man, he has an older man's body. But his curse is also his blessing: as he gets older, his body grows younger, so each successive time he finds his Alice, she does not recognize him. She takes him for a stranger, and Max is given another chance at love. Set against the historical backdrop of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century, Max's life and confessions question the very nature of time, of appearance and reality, and of love itself. A beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, Andrew Sean Greer's The Confessions of Max Tivoli reveals the world through the eyes of a "monster," a being who confounds the very certainties by which we live and in doing so embodies in extremis what it means to be human.