The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

F. Scott Fitzgerald (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2026
Vintage Classics (Verlag)
978-1-5299-8150-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The classic, moving tale of a man born old, destined to die young, and live at odds with his time

Born in the body of a 70-year-old man, Benjamin Button is cursed to live life in reverse. As he ages backwards, he embraces life, finds love and seeks out adventure, all while getting younger and younger. But time, however skewered, waits for no man, and even youth waits to rob Benjamin Button of the one rare thing we all share: life.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.7.2026
• Reihe/Serie: Brief Encounters
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 129 x 198 mm
• Gewicht: 200 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• ISBN-10: 1-5299-8150-6 / 1529981506
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5299-8150-6 / 9781529981506
• Zustand: Neuware