Stalky & Co. (More Stories)
Stalky & Co. (More Stories)
This collection gathers the Kipling stories that somehow slipped past the door of the famous Stalky & Co., and the result is a window into the raw, uncensored origins of one of literature's most notorious schoolboy trios. 'Stalky' arrives first, written in 1898 but excluded from the 1899 collection despite being the genesis of everything that followed. Here are the same wily, defiant boys locked in eternal combat with instructors who never quite grasp what they're dealing with. The stories crackle with the specific humor of adolescence, that razor-sharp wit kids deploy when adults believe they've won. 'Regulus' shifts gears into something more classical, demanding readers meet it on its own terms. These are not gentle sketches of childhood. They are sharp, knowing portraits of young people who understand power better than the adults suppose.
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