title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and other stories by Fitzgerald
author:  F. Scott Fitzgerald 
description: Each story in this collection is narrated reverently and carefully. In The Bridal Party Grover Gardner distinguishes nicely between the affluent bridegroom who is about to feel the repercussions of the 1929 stock market crash and the jilted suitor whose fortunes are rising due to an inheritance. In the often anthologized Babylon Revisited Ray Porter does an outstanding job of performing the female characters. Those two stories hint at the range of this collection. Most of them, including Three Hours Between Planes performed by Jeff Cummings, feature typical Gatsby-like figures who suffer the pangs of unrequited love. The title story, performed by Scott Brick, is a gimmicky tale of a life lived from grave to cradle. Fans will enjoy this collection's lesser known but neatly contrived stories that appear alongside some of the author's canonical tales. For those who may have read one or more of Fitzgerald's novels from the '20s, this audio is a great opportunity to sample his shorter works. <i>(Apr.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  
  
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  ### F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
  
  
  
  
  Published in 1922
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### 1
  
  
  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 wer