The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Francis Scott Fitzgerald probably had one of the leading solo parts in the orchestral score of the “Jazz Age.” Few people could have captured the mad life of America in the 1920s more vividly or more impartially—and he himself was made of the very flesh of that legendary era. His name never left people’s lips and the social columns’ daily reports. His scandalous manner of behaving terrified some and delighted others. But his eccentricity and the outward gilding have passed into the past, and what remains in the present are his immortal books. This volume includes his best stories, including “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” on which David Fincher in 2009 made the acclaimed film of the same name, starring Brad Pitt in the title role.