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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
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Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given...
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Language
English
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"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age. In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. His father Roger invites neighborhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but is quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep...
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Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald makes anti-bellum Baltimore his setting for "The curious case of Benjamin Button," a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning in the dozen years of his life from white to iron-gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less pronounced.
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English
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When Benjamin Button was born he had the appearance of seventy-year-old man, and he was already able to speak. Stunned, his parents nevertheless try to raise him as they would any normal baby. By the time Benjamin is twelve, his parents realize their son is aging backwards, getting younger every day.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was adapted for film in 2008, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
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Recently the basis for a major motion picture starring Hollywood golden boy Brad Pitt, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was written in 1922 by the golden boy of early twentieth-century American fiction, F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of such era-defining masterworks as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. The tale follows the travails and triumphs of the title character, who is born in the body of an elderly man and becomes
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English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald is regarded as of the greatest American writers of the Twentieth century, and many scholars believe his short fiction to be every bit as important as his novels. Here are collected the master of the Jazz Age's finest short works, including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'.
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the greatest American writers, is best known for The Great Gatsby, considered by many to be the most important novel of the twentieth century. But Fitzgerald also made his living as a short story writer, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales collects four of his best.
The title story is a fantasy tale about a man who is in his seventies at birth and progressively ages...
The title story is a fantasy tale about a man who is in his seventies at birth and progressively ages...
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Series
Partners volume 7
Language
English
Description
When one of Allen's former colleagues wants to divorce his wife over an ugly baby he can't believe he fathered, the guys investigate a fertility clinic to uncover the sticky truth.
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