Stalky & Co.

By Kipling, Rudyard

Book Id: WPLBN0002952439
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File Size: 204.10 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Stalky & Co.
Author:	Kipling, Rudyard
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Teen/Young adult
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Stalky & Co.; by Rudyard Kipling
Historic Publication Date:	1899
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Kipling, B. R. (1899). Stalky & Co.. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (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.) The book is a collection of linked short stories, with some information about the eponymous Stalky's later life. Beetle, one of the main trio, is said to be based on Kipling himself, while Stalky may be based on Lionel Dunsterville. 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. Edmund Wilson, critic, in The Wound and the Bow, was both shocked and uncomprehending. Adapted by Tim Bulkeley from the Wikipedia entry.

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Teen/Young adult