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Based on Kipling's own adolescent experiences, Stalky & Co. is a cunning story of mischievous 19th century British schoolboys attempting scholastic mutiny. The faculty and headmaster of a boys' private school repeatedly pursue a trio of poetic pranksters, Stalky, Beetle and Turkey as they wage war on fellow students and the establishment with unwavering energy and creativity.
After which cautionary preamble, we may proceed to the “originals” of the main Stalky & Co. characters, beginning as in duty bound with “THE HEAD”, alias “the Prooshian Bates”. “Mr. Cormell Price”, wrote Colonel Tapp, “was appointed the first Headmaster. He came from Haileybury College in September, 1874, with a nucleus of ...
The Complete Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling. Oxford University Press, 1999 - Fiction - 325 pages. First published in 1899, Stalky and Co. is a collection of school stories based on Kipling's own experiences at the United Services College. Kipling himself appears as the central character called Beetle and through him shows how school is a pattern ...
15 de abr. de 2009 · First published in 1899, Stalky and Co. is a collection of school stories based on Kipling's own experiences at the United Services College. Kipling himself appears as the central character called Beetle and through him shows how school is a pattern-maker for the experiences of life.
Books. Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling. Doubleday, Page, 1926 - Bildungsromans - 310 pages. The story of Beetle and his life at the United Services College. Preview this book ».
Stalky & Co. Search. Advanced Search. Introduction "Let us now praise famous men"--Men of little showing--For their work continueth, And their work continueth, Greater than their knowing. Western wind and open surge Tore us from our mothers; Flung us on a naked shore (Twelve bleak houses by the shore!
