The Complete Stalky and Co. (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

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9780192838599: The Complete Stalky and Co. (Oxford World's Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0192838598 ISBN 13: 9780192838599

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

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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.

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About the Author:

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in India. He went to school in England and then returned to India to be a writer and a journalist.

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A group of boys in a nineteenth-century British military boarding school has great fun playing pranks on one another, and later preparing for real life in the real military. Rudyard Kipling's classic, according to the introduction, is loosely based on the author's own experience. Shelly Frasier performs the narrative portions in a straightforward, solemn Midwestern dialect, while imparting various British accents to every speaking character. While her accents, in and of themselves, are reasonably accurate, the deepened tone in which they are delivered suggests middle-aged men, rather than schoolboys, and renders students indistinguishable from their teachers. She presents the entire book as a tragedy, rather than the lighthearted comedy it is. R.P.L. � AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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