Penguin Books The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Publikace: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON: AND SIX OTHER STORIES - Francis Scott Fitzgerald. 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. Publikace: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON: AND SIX OTHER STORIES - Francis Scott Fitzgerald. This almost Poe-like short story about a baby who lives his life in reverse is the basis of a new Hollywood blockbuster starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. This edition ties-in and also contains 6 other short stories; a }Red Classics{ edition is also published this month.