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'Stalky & Co.' is the hilarious tale of the coming of age of three roguish boys at an English public school. With a seemingly unending supply of practical jokes and ingenious japes to frustrate and thwart their long-suffering schoolmasters, the three pranksters eventually find their match in their wise and all-too-experienced headmaster.
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 ...
Stalky & Co. is the only school story which shows school as a direct preparation for life. Most others actually make the world outside school seem irrelevant, an anticlimax, an unimaginable void. Kipling, for all his intense feeling for the school atmosphere and the moods of adolescence, shows school as the first stage of a much larger game, a ...
Stalky & Co. At the age of just twelve Rudyard was sent to a public school, United Services College in North Devon, as a boarder. It was a tough school but after a year or so he made an alliance with two other boys, Dunsterville and Beresford, they shared a study and became a force in the school. Kipling loved USC and its Head ever after.
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.
- Rudyard Kipling
Stalky & Co. Greater than their knowing. (Twelve bleak houses by the shore! Seven summers by the shore!) 'Mid two hundred brothers. Set in office o'er us. For the love they bore us! And cities of Cathaia! Which is more than knowledge!
