Curious Case of Benjamin Button

In this story, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward.

F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era "e;a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken."e; Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this "e;Lost Generation"e; been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald's short fiction.