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The Complete Stalky and Co. (Oxford World's Classic)
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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The Complete Stalky and Co. (Oxford World's Classic) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780192838599
ISBN: 0192838598
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 368
Publication Date: 1999-06-24
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780192838599
ISBN: 0192838598
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 368
Publication Date: 1999-06-24
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
Editorial Review of The Complete Stalky and Co. (Oxford World's Classic)
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.
Customer Reviews of The Complete Stalky and Co. (Oxford World's Classic)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Book for an incomplete kiplomaniac
Review: When I was young I had a serious Kipling period, but not so serious that I bought all his stuff. To get all the Stalky stories you had to buy various books that I did not want to buy and keep. Or so I thought. In The Complete Stalky you get all the stories in one volume.
The present day young probably won't like the book much for it describes something that is mostly history, but I am old enough to have seen a very authoritarian school system and when I read the book the first time I recognised all the teachers.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "Come forth, my inky buffoon, from behind yonder instrument of music!"
Review: Stalky and Co is the story of three boys in a private British school, which is a lot like saying that The Lord of the Rings is about four Hobbits who go out walking. I've lost count of the number of times I've read this hilarious, madcap, brilliant book, and this would easily make my Desert Island Top 10 list without a moments' hesitation.
One of the three boys, Beetle, is actually Kipling himself, writing in the same autobiographical manner he adopted for the excellent short story, Baa Baa Black Sheep. He and his cohorts, Stalky and the inscrutable McTurk, wage an ongoing battle against what they perceive to be the hypocrisy and cant of their headmasters. This battle is waged with a fiendish sense of irony and fair play, and great pains are taken that the punishments should be tailor-made to fit the crimes. The language and slang are a delight in themselves, and incorporating the better phrases into your own speech is a nearly irresistable temptation. I don't enjoy everything Kipling wrote, but this sadly forgotten book would be enough to win me over as a fan even if he was the worst writer in history.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent
Review: Fantastically funny and wholly original - I'd absolutely urge anyone who has read any of the Harry Potter books to return to the source...
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Book great recording horrible
Review: This is an abysmal recording of Stalky and Co. Read by some vapid, arch young woman who doesn't get sarcasm or irony. In that marvelous scene early on in which M'Turk sees the keeper poaching a vixen in cubbing season, goes all feudal and Irish, and confronts the landowner, the silly besom reads it as if it's Eeyore confronting Piglet. That scene was funny to me when I was 7 and I didn't even understand most of it. And she's American. I am actually going to trash the tape to the publisher. Regardless of non PC stuff, I love Kipling, especially Stalky, Kim, and Puck. Every summer holidays since I was quite young, I began ceremoniously by reading Stalky , Kim, and The Sword in the Stone. A great story, ruined by a reader who does not understand it. Soporific.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Stalky & Co.
Review: This is my absolute favorite book of all time. Not only is the story brilliant - Stalky & Co. repeatedly outwitting their elders and peers in creative and innovative ways - but the language is pure gold. The book is chocked full of delightful gems of British schoolboy slang, from giglamps to fags to brollies - and the teachers' vocabulary is spectacular. Say what you like about Kipling, but this book is magnificent.
Review Summary: Book for an incomplete kiplomaniac
Review: When I was young I had a serious Kipling period, but not so serious that I bought all his stuff. To get all the Stalky stories you had to buy various books that I did not want to buy and keep. Or so I thought. In The Complete Stalky you get all the stories in one volume.
The present day young probably won't like the book much for it describes something that is mostly history, but I am old enough to have seen a very authoritarian school system and when I read the book the first time I recognised all the teachers.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "Come forth, my inky buffoon, from behind yonder instrument of music!"
Review: Stalky and Co is the story of three boys in a private British school, which is a lot like saying that The Lord of the Rings is about four Hobbits who go out walking. I've lost count of the number of times I've read this hilarious, madcap, brilliant book, and this would easily make my Desert Island Top 10 list without a moments' hesitation.
One of the three boys, Beetle, is actually Kipling himself, writing in the same autobiographical manner he adopted for the excellent short story, Baa Baa Black Sheep. He and his cohorts, Stalky and the inscrutable McTurk, wage an ongoing battle against what they perceive to be the hypocrisy and cant of their headmasters. This battle is waged with a fiendish sense of irony and fair play, and great pains are taken that the punishments should be tailor-made to fit the crimes. The language and slang are a delight in themselves, and incorporating the better phrases into your own speech is a nearly irresistable temptation. I don't enjoy everything Kipling wrote, but this sadly forgotten book would be enough to win me over as a fan even if he was the worst writer in history.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Excellent
Review: Fantastically funny and wholly original - I'd absolutely urge anyone who has read any of the Harry Potter books to return to the source...
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Book great recording horrible
Review: This is an abysmal recording of Stalky and Co. Read by some vapid, arch young woman who doesn't get sarcasm or irony. In that marvelous scene early on in which M'Turk sees the keeper poaching a vixen in cubbing season, goes all feudal and Irish, and confronts the landowner, the silly besom reads it as if it's Eeyore confronting Piglet. That scene was funny to me when I was 7 and I didn't even understand most of it. And she's American. I am actually going to trash the tape to the publisher. Regardless of non PC stuff, I love Kipling, especially Stalky, Kim, and Puck. Every summer holidays since I was quite young, I began ceremoniously by reading Stalky , Kim, and The Sword in the Stone. A great story, ruined by a reader who does not understand it. Soporific.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Stalky & Co.
Review: This is my absolute favorite book of all time. Not only is the story brilliant - Stalky & Co. repeatedly outwitting their elders and peers in creative and innovative ways - but the language is pure gold. The book is chocked full of delightful gems of British schoolboy slang, from giglamps to fags to brollies - and the teachers' vocabulary is spectacular. Say what you like about Kipling, but this book is magnificent.