The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The book is organized on the principle of a bilingual edition: the work is published in English (original text) with a parallel translation into Russian.

Benjamin Button was born as a seventy-year-old man and lived... his life "backwards": from old age to infancy. It is remarkable that at times he managed to be an ordinary person: to receive an education, to create a family, to serve his country… However, the events of childhood, experienced by a man in his twilight years, and old age, spent in a cradle, are unique and raise insurmountable questions related to human nature and the impossibility of normal relationships with loved ones.

Learning a foreign language through parallel reading helps not only to significantly expand vocabulary but also to work effectively on mastering grammatical structures and speech turns. This book in English is accompanied by a parallel corresponding translation in Russian. The book will help enhance and refresh one's language skills, enrich vocabulary with useful lexis, and check knowledge of grammar. Each paragraph in English corresponds to a paragraph in Russian. At the end of the book, there are notes explaining some words. Compiled and translated by Zagorodnyaya I.B.