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CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON by F. Scott Fitzgerald

CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Start Publishing PD · Print & ebook · May 22, 2024

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Who it’s for
A familiar life’s direction runs backward, giving Fitzgerald’s story a quietly playful edge.
Genres
Short Stories (Single Author), Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Published
Start Publishing PD, May 22, 2024

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About this book

The powerful story of Benjamin Button who starts his life as an old man and gradually becomes younger is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best known stories and now a major motion picture."This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end.

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By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial."-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life in Reverse

A familiar life’s direction runs backward, giving Fitzgerald’s story a quietly playful edge.

Come here for

  • A sly reversal of the usual arc of aging
  • Fitzgerald’s playful thought experiment in story form

Expect

  • One man’s unusual aging, set in a perfectly normal world
  • A compact classic built around a what-if

Where it sits

Short Stories (Single Author)61%
Sci-Fi44%
Fantasy34%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Fantasy
  • Sci-Fi
  • Magical Realism
Authors
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher
Start Publishing PD
Published
May 22, 2024
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Fantasy