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Summary: One of the best written books in the English language.
Review: Well, get ready to take yourself back to grammar and high school! If you attended a small, interactive private (in the US sense) school, this incredibly imaginative coverage of the genre will leave you gasping for breath more than once. If you, in your youth, were adventurous, mischievous and inventive, always in some sort of trouble, this is a book that will recapture those times both when you beat the system and when the system beat you. My father, who would be 103 if he still lived, passed this book on to me in his will, and I still have the original. In its thirty years of existence it's become dogeared and yellowed, like its former and its current owner. And it cost $.60 originally. You don't have to be old to enjoy it; you don't even have to have a "past" to laugh out loud every single time you read it. Buy it! You'll be passing it on to your children.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: With Stalky, McTurk and Beetle around, you know that school will never be boring. They are a terror to the house-masters, the prefects, and just about everyone else. And, college complete, out they go, bursting upon an unsuspecting world!
I must admit that I have not read much Rudyard Kipling, but this is one of my favorite books! Kipling takes an irreverent look at late-nineteenth century British school life, taking the reader along on a hilarious journey from one adventure to another. As this book was originally written with the younger reader in mind, they will no doubt enjoy seeing these students outmaneuver and overwhelm their elders. But, even if you are only young at heart, you will still enjoy this wonderfully hilarious book. I have read it three times over the years, and do not hesitate to recommend it highly to everyone!
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