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The Complete Stalky and Co. (Oxford World's Classic)
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The Complete Stalky and Co. (Oxford World's Classic) (1899) (edit title/settings)

by Rudyard Kipling (Author) (edit contributors)

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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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  • “My Hat! You've been here six years, and you expect fairness. Well, you are a dithering idiot.”
    Stalky
  • “Can't your infant mind connect it yet? Someday you'll find out that it don't pay to jest with Number Five.”
    Stalky

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In summer all right-minded boys built huts in the furze-hill behind the College-little lairs whittled out of the heart of the prickly bushes, full of stumps, odd root-ends, and spikes, but, since they were strictly forbidden, palaces of delight.

Table of Contents edit see section history

I. "In Ambush"
II. Slaves of the Lamp. Part 1
III. An Unsavoury Interlude
IV. The Impressionists
V. The Moral Reformers
VI. A Little Prep
VII. The Flag of their Country
VIII. The Last Term
IX. Slaves of the Lamp. Part II

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  1. Rudyard Kipling (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Macmillan
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1899
ISBN: 1-85326-143-2
Page Count: 272

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