The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: And Two Other Stories (Read Red) Book

This is an anthology of the best stories written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald - including "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "A Diamond As Big As The Ritz". ; ; People who were unfailingly polite racked their brains for compliments to give to the parents--and finally hit upon the ingenious device of declaring that the baby resembled his grandfather a fact which due to the standard state of decay common to all men of seventy could not be denied. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were not pleased and Benjamin's grandfather was furiously insulted. ; ; Benjamin once he left the hospital took life as he found it. Several small boys were brought to see him and he spent a stiff-jointed afternoon trying to work up an interest in tops and marbles--he even managed quite accidentally to break a kitchen window with a stone from a sling shot a feat which secretly delighted his father. ; ; Thereafter Benjamin contrived to break something every day but he did these things only because they were expected of him and because he was by nature obliging. ; ; When his grandfather's initial antagonism wore off Benjamin and that gentleman took enormous pleasure in one another's