The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories (incl. CD-ROM): Level 3 (Penguin Active Reading (Graded Readers))

F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN 10: 1408261219 / ISBN 13: 9781408261217

Published by Pearson ELT, 2011

About this Item

Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories (incl. CD-ROM): Level 3 (Penguin Active Reading (Graded Readers))
• Publisher: Pearson ELT
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408261219
• ISBN 13: 9781408261217
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very good

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Synopsis

Benjamin Button is a very strange baby. Born with a white beard, he looks like his grandfather. As years pass, he seems to get younger. This brings many problems, for him and the people around him. In these three stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, people are not always as they seem.

About the Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four, while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon. For his sharp social insight and breathtaking lyricism, Fitzgerald is known as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.