Edmund Wilson, critic, in The Wound and the Bow, was both shocked and uncomprehending.Īdapted by Tim Bulkeley from the Wikipedia entry. The stories have elements of the macabre (dead cats), bullying and violence, and hints about sex, making them far from the childish or idealised world of the typical school story. Rudyard Kipling, The Complete Stalky and Co. Beetle, one of the main trio, is said to be based on Kipling himself, while Stalky may be based on Lionel Dunsterville. Stalky,' in their school vocabulary, meant clever, well-considered and wily, as applied to plans of action and 'stalkiness' was the one virtue Corkran toiled after. The book is a collection of linked short stories, with some information about the eponymous Stalky's later life. (The town, Westward Ho!, is not only unusual in having an exclamation mark, but also in being itself named after a novel, by Charles Kingsley.) Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. He had been cajoled into that office by the blandishments of Stalky and M‘Turk and the extreme rigour of study law. It was first published in 1899, following serialisation in the Windsor Magazine. Download cover art Download CD case insert Stalky & Co. The Last Term Rudyard Kipling ITwas within a few days of the holidays, the term-end examinations, and, more important still, the issue of the College paper which Beetle edited. is a book of Boarding School stories by Rudyard Kipling, featuring the exploits of Guile Hero Stalky and his pals Beetle and M'Turk.
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