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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Jazz Age Tale of Time, Youth, and Reversal
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Curated Collection Publishing
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a strange, elegant, and unforgettable tale of time moving in reverse. Born with the appearance and mind of an old man, Benjamin Button enters the world as a mystery to his family and a scandal to polite society. As the years pass, Benjamin grows younger while everyone around him grows older, forcing him to live a life out of step with love, ambition, family, and expectation.
With wit, irony, and emotional sharpness, Fitzgerald turns an impossible premise into a haunting reflection on youth, age, identity, and the roles people are expected to play. Benjamin's backward life is comic, tragic, and deeply human - a story about what it means to belong when time itself has made you different.
Set against the changing world of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button captures Fitzgerald's gift for social observation and melancholy beauty. Brief but memorable, it remains one of his most imaginative works and a classic story of fate, difference, and the passing of time.
This edition is prepared for clear, comfortable reading while preserving the wit, elegance, and quiet strangeness of Fitzgerald's original prose. For readers of classic American literature, Jazz Age fiction, speculative stories, and literary tales of identity and destiny, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a fascinating and memorable classic.
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