Spires and Gargoyles Early Writings, 1909}}}1919 [Hardcover]

A collection of Fitzgerald's writings for high school and Princeton University magazines.This volume in the acclaimed scholarly edition of Fitzgerald's works collects his writings for high school and Princeton University magazines. Explanatory notes, illustrations and textual information are included.This volume in the acclaimed scholarly edition of Fitzgerald's works collects his writings for high school and Princeton University magazines. Explanatory notes, illustrations and textual information are included.F. Scott Fitzgerald had a busy and productive literary apprenticeship, writing in a great variety of genres. This volume contains his writings for the student magazine at his high schools and his Princeton writings for the Daily Princetonian, the Princeton Tiger, and the Nassau Literary Magazine. Of special note in this volume are the complete lyrics that Fitzgerald composed for three student musical comedies mounted by the Triangle Club at Princeton  Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi! (1914), The Evil Eye (1915), and Safety First! (1916). The volume includes a scholarly introduction, a record of variants and emendations, and numerous facsimiles and other illustrations. Explanatory notes identify the literary works, Broadway shows, movie queens, stage stars, politicians, historical figures, criminals, sports heroes, and popular songs referred to by Fitzgerald in these early writings.Introduction; St. Paul Academy, 19091911: The mystery of the Raymond mortgage; Reade, substitute right half; A debt of honor; S.P.A. men in college athletics; The room with the green blinds; The Newman School, 19111913: 'Football'; Election night; A luckless Santa Claus; Pain and the scientist; The trail of the duke; A school dance; Princeton University, 19131917: Triangle Show lyrics; Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!; The Evil Eye; Safety First!; Prose and verse; 'There was once &'; 'Shadow laurels'; May small talk; The ordeal; how they head the chapters; A cheer for Princeton; The conquest of America; To my unl#!