MP3 Audio Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
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Audio/Visual
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Science Fiction/Fantaisie
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Publication Year
2009
Publisher
Cloud Mountain, United States
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1:10:22
Subject
English Audio Book B2, C1, C2
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Abstract
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.
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Recorded here is the complete, original story as penned by Fitzgerald in the early 1920s, published originally in Colliers and finally collected in the popular Tales of the Jazz Age. One might call Benjamin Button an odd addition to the collection, as he was born in 1860, the year prior to Lincoln gaining his Presidency —a long way from the Jazz Age, which marked its begiining when Benjamin was 60... and was... well, you'll have to listen to the REAL story to find out what happened before Hollywood stepped in...
The story is prefaced by Fitzgerald's brief humorous comment hidden away in the book's table of contents. Here he establishes both the tale's humor and its pathos and in a further sense, grounds it in our growing tradition of American literary sensibilities with a nod to Mr. Clemens.
The story is prefaced by Fitzgerald's brief humorous comment hidden away in the book's table of contents. Here he establishes both the tale's humor and its pathos and in a further sense, grounds it in our growing tradition of American literary sensibilities with a nod to Mr. Clemens.
Biblio Notes
Read by Alan Davis Drake
Source: https://archive.org/details/TheCuriousCaseofBenjaminButton
Source: https://archive.org/details/TheCuriousCaseofBenjaminButton
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