Name: Stalky & Co.
SKU: 60002443
Price: 21.63 EUR
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Author: Kipling, Rudyard
ISBN: 9781977730220

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.8 cm

Weight

0.47 kg.

ISBN13

9781977730220

Synopsis "Stalky & Co."

Full text.Stalky and Co. is a collection of linked school stories whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlook on patriotism and authority. According to his family, Kipling enjoyed reading aloud stories from Stalky and Co. to them and often went into spasms of laughter over his own jokes, probably because this novel is based on his own experiences at the United Services College. Indeed, Kipling himself appears as the central character called Beetle and through him shows how school is a pattern-maker for the experiences of life.The stories have elements of revenge, the macabre, bullying and violence, and hints about sex, making them far from childish or idealised.

Rudyard Kipling

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Bombay, (1865-1936). Rudyard Kipling wrote novels, poems, and stories mainly set in India and Burma during the British rule. Kipling was a prolific and popular writer, and his literature always revolves around three axes: patriotism, the duty of the English to lead a life of intense activity, and the destiny of England, called to be a great empire. His insistence on this last aspect was undoubtedly an echo of the Victorian past, and severely damaged his reputation as a writer, despite being the first British author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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