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  • Published: 20 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529981506
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $19.99

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button




Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with F Scott Fitzgerald, and his iconic, fairy-talesque story of a man aging backwards, from old age to birth.

The classic, moving tale of a man born old, destined to die young, and live at odds with his time

To the confusion and embarrassment of his family, Benjamin Button is born an old man. As the years pass, he grows younger – moving against the current of ordinary life. While those around him age as expected, Benjamin finds himself increasingly out of step, his relationships strained by a life no one else can share. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s quietly unsettling tale of being a misfit to one’s time.

Includes the stories: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Winter Dreams and 'The Sensible Thing'

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

  • Published: 20 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529981506
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul Minnesota, in 1896, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. His masterpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned and Tender is the Night. He died at the age of fourty-four. After his death, New York Times said that Fitzgerald 'was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.'

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