Eliza Naumann, an unremarkable nine-yaer-old, feels out of place in her gifted family until she discovers a talent for competitive spelling that changes everything. Once-distant teachers regard her with a new fondness and studious classmates begin saving her a place at lunch; her father, meanwhile, begins to lavish attention upon her that he had formerly reserved for her celebral elder brother…
Was written in 1922 by the golden boy of early twentieth-century American fiction, F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of such era-defining masterworks as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. The tale follows the travails and triumphs of the title character, who is born in the body of an elderly man and becomes progressively younger over the course of his life.