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Loading... The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (original 1922; edition 2014)by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)
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Having read the majority of F. Scott Fitzgerald's work, I think I can say that I only like The Great Gatsby. He takes his fiction in the complete opposite direction it should go. I will hold onto this collection of stories and try some other ones later in life, but I have to close the book on him for now. ( ) The only other Fitzgerald I've read is The Great Gatsby. This novella is totally different and not at all what I would have expected from the author. It was really quite funny and a pleasure to read. I'm sure there's a moral to the story in there somewhere as there always is. Perhaps that that adage "if I knew then, what I know now" is hogwash since Button did, in a sense, Know Then yet he lived an ordinary life (as much as one can that ages in reverse) filled with the same mistakes and triumphs as someone born in the usual way. no reviews | add a review
Is contained inNovels and Stories 1920-1922: This Side of Paradise / Flappers and Philosophers / The Beautiful and the Damned / Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald (indirect) F Scott Fitzgerald Premium 9 Book Collection (5 novels & 40 short stories) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (indirect) American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set by Peter Straub (indirect) Has the adaptation
In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of Fitzgerald's most memorable stories. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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