A 14 year old girl with extreme musical talent is dying of cancer. Her father (a special government agent), a strange visitor from another planet simply calling himself the Music Man and four powerful beings who accompany him converge on Earth to thwart a pending attack in our future. But can they do it in time? Who can be trusted? Will the young girl realize her destiny in time before she dies? What will happen to Earth if she fails? Why is all this related to only music? What did a fifth...

When all you need is a basic understanding of the anatomy of the muscular system, supplemented by current evidence and research, Cram Sessions on Functional Anatomy: Applications and Problem Solving for Real-Life Situations is what you will look to for quick, at-your-fingertips facts.Cram Sessions on Functional Anatomy by Drs. Benjamin, Bechtel, and Conroy is a concise and illustrated quick reference that takes over 60 years of co...

From the author of The Great Gatsby, this collection sees F. Scott Fitzgerald deftly chronicle heartbreak, astonishment and romance across three stories, where fortunes can change in an instant and couples break apart, only to be reunited again. An accomplished novelist and short story writer, renowned for his portraits of American society during the Jazz Age, these tales exemplify F. Scott Fitzgerald’s talent.The Bridal Party is set in 1930s Pari...

What if life ran in reverse? The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a mesmerizing tale of a man who is born old and grows younger with time—a thought-provoking journey through love, destiny, and the relentless march of time. F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic short story takes readers on an extraordinary adventure, following Benjamin Button, a man whose life defies the natural order of aging. Born with the body of a seventy-year-old man, Benjamin's unique condition forces him to navigate a worl...

This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books." The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous adm...

No ano de 1860, em Baltimore, nos Estados Unidos, nasce Benjamin Button, um indivíduo com a estranha condição de envelhecer ao contrário. Na fase em que deveria ser uma criança, Benjamin tem a aparência e o humor de um senhor de mais de setenta anos de idade, que prefere fumar charutos, ler enciclopédias e conversar com o próprio avô sobre banalidades do que tomar parte em atividades infantis, das quais seu pai, Roger, tenta obrigá-lo a gostar. Embora a expectativa de todos seja a de que B...

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald hör till en av 1900-talets största amerikanska författare och hans roman Den store Gatsby är ständigt aktuell. I novellen Det sällsamma fallet Benjamin Button ger oss Fitzgerald en fascinerande historia om Benjamin Button, som lever ett bokstavligen bakvänt liv. Novellen publicerades första gången 1922 och har inte funnits på svenska tidigare, även om nog många är bekanta med den surrealistiska berättelsen genom regissören David Finchers film från 2008...

Born an old man, Benjamin Button lived a very curious life, backwardsWhen Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy is a weathered, aged man, for all appearances no younger than seventy years old. As time goes by, young Benjamin comes to no longer require a cane, his hair ceases to be grey, his limbs become less frail, his wrinkles less deep, but still the world around him fails to come to terms with his oddne...

Escrito por el autor estadounidense F. Scott Fitzgerald y publicado por primera vez en la revista Collier's el 27 de mayo de 1922, fue publicado dentro del libro Tales of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald se inspiró en un comentario de Mark Twain. Benjamin Button nace con una extraña enfermedad, que provocaba que naciera con 80 años y fuera rejuveneciendo con el paso de los años. Una afección que existe en la realidad bajo el nombre de progeria o síndrome de Hutchinson-Gilford.

Questo racconto, pubblicato nel 1922 , fu ispirato da un’osservazione di Mark Twain: che era un peccato che la parte migliore della nostra vita venisse all’inizio e la peggiore alla fine. Dice Francis Scott Fitzgerald: “Io ho cercato di dimostrare la sua tesi, facendo un esperimento con un uomo inserito in un ambiente perfettamente normale.”. Dal racconto, surreale ma niente affatto superficiale, è stato tratto un film nel 2008.

This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books."