This 1899 semi-autobiographical collection of stories about boys at a British boarding school in North Devon focuses on three chums—the eponymous Stalky, Mc Turk, and Beetle—who were stand-ins for Kipling himself and his boyhood friends. Rowdy and amusing, the stories are among Kipling’s freshest.
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Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), called the “prophet of British imperialism” by George Orwell, became a past master of the short story, as well as a tireless poet. The first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1907), his fiction and poetry include such works as The Jungle Book, The Light That Failed, and “Gunga Din.”
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 344 ● ISBN 9781411442511 ● File size 0.2 MB ● Age 99-17 years ● Publisher Barnes & Noble ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5863039 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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