Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American writer, a prominent figure in the so-called "lost generation." Fitzgerald was a cult figure of his time, a model of "American happiness." . He provided a high standard of living with his creativity - for fees he wrote short stories commissioned by fashionable magazines. Among the approximately 150 stories written in May, the Mysterious Story of Benjamin Button, The Gemstone the Size of the Ritz, The Rich Guy, The Ice Fortress, and others are particularly noteworthy. Each story has a special charm, mood, psychologism, unexpected plot.
"The Mysterious Story of Benjamin Button" from the first lines stuns the reader: in 1860 in Baltimore was born a child who looks like a 70-year-old man and can speak & shy; . When the "boy" turns 12, it becomes clear that he is growing "on the contrary" ...
