Revealing the breadth of F‎.‎ Scott Fitzgerald‎'‎s gift for the short story form‎,‎ this Penguin Classics edition of The Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories spans multiple genres and styles to dazzling effect‎.‎ Full grown with a long‎,‎ smoke‎-coloured beard‎,‎ requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk‎,‎ Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed‎.‎ And‎,‎ as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years‎,‎ his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse‎.‎ In this imaginative fable of ageing and the other stories collected here ‎- including ‎'‎The Cut‎-Glass Bowl‎'‎ in which an ill‎-meant gift haunts a family‎'‎s misfortunes‎,‎ ‎'‎The Four Fists‎'‎ where a man‎'‎s life shaped by a series of punches to his face‎,‎ and the revelry‎,‎ mobs and anguish of ‎'‎May Day‎'‎ ‎- F‎.‎ Scott Fitzgerald displays his unmatched gift as a writer of short stories‎.‎ ‎'‎The Curious Case of Benjamin Button‎'‎‎,‎ originally published in 1922‎,‎ was made into a major motion picture directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt‎,‎ Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton‎.‎ F‎.‎ Scott Fitzgerald ‎(‎1896‎-1940‎)‎ has acquired a mythical status in American literary history‎,‎ and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the ‎'‎great American novel‎'‎‎.‎ In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre‎,‎ dubbed ‎'‎the first American Flapper‎'‎‎,‎ and their traumatic marriage and Zelda‎'‎s gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing‎.‎ As well as many short stories‎,‎ Fitzgerald wrote five novels This Side of Paradise‎,‎ The Great Gatsby‎,‎ The Beautiful and the Damned‎,‎ Tender is the Night and‎,‎ incomplete at the time of his death‎,‎ The Last Tycoon‎.‎ After his death The New York Times said of him that ‎'‎in fact and in the literary sense he created a ‎"‎generation‎"‎ ‎'‎‎.‎ If you enjoyed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button‎,‎ you might like Fitzgerald‎'‎s The Great Gatsby‎,‎ also available in Penguin Classics‎.‎ ‎'‎A master of the American short story‎'‎ The Philadelphia Enquirer ‎'‎His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly‎'‎s wings‎'‎ Ernest Hemingway