The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917

viii, 184 pp. "John Kuehl has collected here some of the prep-school and college stories discovered during the 1950s in a Fitzgerald scrapbook. Fitzgerald's subjects range from football to war, from entering the priesthood to flunking out of college. Foreshadowings of many of his major themes can be found in these early pieces of fiction, and he was even then exploring the writing techniques that were later to appear in his full-length fiction, particularly in his use of the narrator-observer." CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage; Reade, Substitute Right Half; A Debt of Honor and The Room With the Green Blinds; A Luckless Santa Claus, The Trail of the Duke and Pain and the Scientist; Shadow Laurels; The Ordeal; The Debutante; The Spire and the Gargoyle; Tarquin and Cheepside; Babes in the Woods; Sentiment--and the Use of Rouge; The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw; Appendix: The Death of My Father; Index.