In the late 19th century, a newborn from Balitmore named Benjamin looks like a 70-year-old man and begins to age backwards over the years.

In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech. At five, Benjamin is sent to kindergarten but has to be quickly withdrawn after he repeatedly falls asleep during child activities. When Benjamin turns 12, the Button family realizes that their son is aging backwards.... F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous story is the basis for the motion picture late in 2008 starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett and directed by David Fincher.

May Day in New York: While socialists quarrel with former WWI soldiers, others are more involved in parties or big financial and love trouble. New edition of Fitzgerald's classic.

Jim is a jelly-bean: an idler in some nice little town in Georgia. He makes a severe mistake: He falls in love. This story is in some ways a predecessor to Fitzgerald's later work "The Great Gatsby."

Four mysterious and fantastic tales from America's premier author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The collection includes "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," the short story that served as the basis for the 2008 film starring Brad Pitt.

As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon the astonishing history I am about to set down will never be known.

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea-if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset. About half-way between the Florida shore and the golden collar a white steam-yacht, very young and graceful, was riding at anchor and under a...

First published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, 'The Diamond as big as The Ritz' is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's under-rated masterpieces. Fans of 'The Great Gatsby' will enjoy this satirical short story set during the Jazz Age.