The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Autor F. Scott Fitzgeralden Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 sep 2018
Full 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.
'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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterworkThe Great Gatsbyis 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 novelsThis Side of Paradise,The Great Gatsby,The Beautiful and the Damned,Tender is the Nightand, incomplete at the time of his death,The Last Tycoon. After his deathThe New York Timessaid of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a "generation" '.
If you enjoyedThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button,you might like Fitzgerald'sThe Great Gatsby, also available in Penguin Classics.
'A master of the American short story'
The Philadelphia Enquirer
'His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings'
Ernest Hemingway
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781613825310
ISBN-10: 1613825315
Pagini: 40
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.08 kg
Editura: Simon & Brown
ISBN-10: 1613825315
Pagini: 40
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.08 kg
Editura: Simon & Brown
Notă biografică
Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and educated at the Newman School and at Princeton. This Side of Paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920 to instant acclaim. He soon after married Zelda Sayre, and the two became the most famous American couple of the Jazz Age-as known for Fitzgerald's writing as their legendary debauchery. Until 1931 they divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera. When they were forced by money and health problems to return to the States, Fitzgerald became a writer for Hollywood movie studios. He died in 1940 while working on his unfinished novel of Hollywood, The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald published The Beautiful and Damned, his second novel, in 1922. His other works include Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), All the Sad Young Men (1926), Tender Is the Night (1934), and Taps at Reveille (1935).
Cuprins
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
HEAD AND SHOULDERS
BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR
THE ICE PALACE
THE OFFSHORE PIRATE
MAY DAY
THE JELLY-BEAN
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ
WINTER DREAMS
DICE, BRASSKNUCKLES & GUITAR
ABSOLUTION
RAGS MARTIN-JONES AND THE PR-NCE OF W-LES
"THE SENSIBLE THING"
LOVE IN THE NIGHT
THE RICH BOY
JACOB'S LADDER
A SHORT TRIP HOME
THE BOWL
THE CAPTURED SHADOW
BASIL AND CLEOPATRA
THE LAST OF THE BELLES
MAJESTY
AT YOUR AGE
THE SWIMMERS
TWO WRONGS
FIRST BLOOD
EMOTIONAL BANKRUPTCY
THE BRIDAL PARTY
ONE TRIP ABROAD
THE HOTEL CHILD
BABYLON REVISITED
A NEW LEAF
A FREEZE-OUT
SIX OF ONE --
WHAT A HANDSOME PAIR!
CRAZY SUNDAY
MORE THAN JUST A HOUSE
AFTERNOON OF AN AUTHOR
FINANCING FINNEGAN
THE LOST DECADE
"BOIL SOME WATER -- LOTS OF IT"
LAST KISS
DEARLY BELOVED
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A handsomely produced stand-alone-edition of the witty and fantastical story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON', is the inspiration for the upcoming major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett and directed by David Fincher.
A handsomely produced stand-alone-edition of the witty and fantastical story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON', is the inspiration for the upcoming major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett and directed by David Fincher.