The complete Stalky & Co
By: Rudyard Kipling ; edited with an introduction and notes by Isabel Quigly.
Contributors: Quigly, Isabel.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780199555031
Subjects: Private schools -- England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Other titles: Complete Stalky and company
Description: Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the stories is the question 'What happened to these fifteen-year-old boys, and how did the lessons they learned at school apply to the world of warfare and imperial government?'
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxi]-xxxiii).