The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The classic, moving tale of a man born old, destined to die young, and live at odds with his time To the confusion and embarrassment of his family, Benjamin Button is born an old man. As the years pass, he grows younger - moving against the current of ordinary life. While those around him age as expected, Benjamin finds himself increasingly out of step, his relationships strained by a life no one else can share. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is F. Scott Fitzgerald's quietly unsettling tale of being a misfit to one's time. Includes the stories: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Winter Dreams and 'The Sensible Thing' BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age - a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.