This Penguin Classics collection of The Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories spans several genres and styles to stunning effect, revealing the depth of F. Scott Fitzgerald's talent for the short story form. With a long, smoky beard as an adult, using a cane, and preferring cigars to warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very inquisitive child.Benjamin's family also questions why he keeps up the foolish folly of living backwards as he gets younger and younger with each passing year. F. Scott Fitzgerald exhibits his unrivalled talent as a short story writer in this imaginative fable about ageing and the other stories collected here, such as "The Cut-Glass Bowl," where an unintended gift haunts a family's misfortunes, "The Four Fists," where a man's life is shaped by a series of punches to his face, and the revelry, mobs, and anguish of "May Day."