![]() ![]() (Summary adapted by Tim Bulkeley from the Wikipedia entry)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. Edmund Wilson, critic, in The Wound and the Bow, was both shocked and uncomprehending. 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. Beetle, one of the main trio, is said to be based on Kipling himself, while Stalky may be based on Lionel Dunsterville. 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. I - An unsavory interlude - The impressionists - The moral reformers - A little prep - The flag of their country - The last term - Slaves of the lamp, pt. Alternate Title: Stalky and Company Contents: In ambush - Slaves of the lamp, pt. ![]() LibriVox recording of Stalky & Co., by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936: Title: Stalky & Co. ![]()
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