![]() Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. ![]() ![]() Series Descriptionįor over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Publishers gilt lettered and decorated red soft leather, top edge gilt. This edition includes five Stalky stories which did not appear in the original volume, and thus constitutes a Complete Stalky & Co. 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?' The stories are based on Kipling's own school, the United Services College at Westward Ho! in Devon, which prepared boys destined for the army or for colonial service Kipling himself appears as the subordinate character, Beetle. ![]() Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. ![]()
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