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    Stalky & Co. (More Stories)
    Stalky & Co. (More Stories)
    Stalky & Co. (More Stories)
    Audiobook1 hour

    Stalky & Co. (More Stories)

    Written by Rudyard Kipling

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    This small collection puts together stories by Kipling that feature the characters from Stalky & Co. but which for some reason were not included in the book Stalky & Co. Of these the more interesting is the first, "Stalky", which introduces the characters and is full of the humour and understanding of adolescent males and their timeless jostling with adult powers that characterise the stories in Stalky & Co. "Stalky" was the first of the tales to be written, and was published in 1898, so it is difficult to understand how it came to be omitted from the book in 1899."Regulus", while also full of humour, is a more difficult read in an age when a "proper" classical education is no longer something widely experienced.There are also other stories that cannot be included here because they are still in copyright:- "The United Idolators" and "The Propagation of Knowledge" in Debits and Credits (1926)- "The Satisfaction of a Gentleman" in The Complete Stalky & Co (1929).There is also another "Scylla and Charybdis", unpublished in Kipling's day, and only made available recently that although not copyright in the USA cannot be included because we do not have access to the manuscript, only an edited edition (which itself is subject to copyright).If you enjoyed Stalky & Co you will probably enjoy these additional stories.(Introduction by Tim Bulkeley)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Stalky & Co. (More Stories)
    Author

    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.

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