The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Name: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.8 (102 reviews)
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781937091637

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Published: 10/05/2008

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Classic

Synopsis

Benjamin Button was literally born an old man. He lived a backwards life, for his body grew younger as the years passed him by. Come and listen to the original, unabridged story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which inspired the movie.

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ilse on February 15, 2018

The curious case of Benjamin Button, as a slightly melancholic and in its absurdity somewhat humorous, surreal tale on time and (non) conformism, could in a sense be read as a satirical allegory on ageism avant la lettre. (Or maybe I did so). “You're just the romantic age," she continued — "fifty. Tw......more

Goodreads review by Vit on August 20, 2021

Usually children are born as infants but Benjamin Button was born a septuagenarian… The cool perspiration redoubled on Mr. Button’s forehead. He closed his eyes, and then, opening them, looked again. There was no mistake – he was gazing at a man of threescore and ten – a baby of threescore and ten, a......more

Goodreads review by Terrie on December 28, 2022

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is curious, indeed! Benjamin Button is born in 1860 at the age of seventy. He's born in the body of an older man with the ability to talk and walk. If that's not curious enough, as he lives his life, he ages backwards rather than forwards.......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on April 21, 2025

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a strange little fantasy about a baby born in 1860, who appears to be a withered decrepit old man. He goes on to live his life in reverse, doing all the normal things - running a business, marrying and having children, going to war, attending school and college......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on May 11, 2016

Goodreads is serendipitous! I have been planning to read this for a long time, but somehow kept on putting it off. I suddenly came across Fatty Bolger's review in my feed. It was during my lunch hour, so I Googled for a free version online, found it, and read it. Surprisingly, I liked the story a lot......more