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    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales
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    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales

    Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

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    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 backwards. The other stories included in this collection are "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "Tarquin of Cheapside," and "O Russet Witch!"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 8, 2008
    ISBN9781400179770
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Among the “Lost Generation” of writers that came of age during the Roaring Twenties, the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) epitomized “The Jazz Age”: a period of declining traditional values, prohibition and speakeasies, and great artistic leaps. Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise, was a financial success, but subsequent ones, including his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, sold poorly. In need of money, he turned to writing commercial short stories and Hollywood scripts, while his lifelong alcoholism destroyed his health and led to an early death. The 1945 reissue of The Great Gatsby spurred a wide resurgence of interest, and Fitzgerald is now considered one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.

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      Great listen, loved the narration. Didnt realize it was 4 stories when I started it.

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