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. but which for some reason were not included in the book Stalky & Co. published 1899 OCLC 1127934491 page 4 Chuck us down that net on top of the. Beetle, one of the main trio, is said to be based on Kipling himself, while Stalky may be based on Lionel Dunsterville. This small collection puts together stories by Kipling that feature the characters from Stalky & Co. 1898 August Rudyard Kipling In Ambush in Stalky & Co., London: Macmillan & Co. 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.) Kipling himself appears as the central character called Beetle and through him shows how school is a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. is a collection of school stories based on Kipling's own experiences at the United Services College. Download cover art Download CD case insert Stalky & Co.
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