本杰明·巴顿奇事/The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories. In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life -- he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and, as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse. This strange and haunting story embodies the sharp social insight that has made Fitzgerald one of the great voices in the history of American literature. 作者简介： F.Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul,Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University,and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the Amer-ican expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein,Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four while working on Th Love of the Last Tycoon.