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Summary: classic
Review: a good book which captured many themes which survive on even today... for the modern equivilant of stalky&co, have a look at shawson&co at www.shawson.co.uk - well worth a look in!
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Summary: classic
Review: a good book which captured many themes which survive on even today... for the modern equivilant of stalky&co, have a look at shawson&co at www.shawson.co.uk - well worth a look in!
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Summary: Dated and awkward
Review: I will admit I only bought this book because E. Nesbit's Wouldbegoods are always talking about it and I wanted to find the things that influenced Nesbit. I can't get past page 10 of this thing. The language is very dated, English schoolboy slang, and I can't figure out half of what they are saying. It's not interesting enough to keep me trying to read it.
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Summary: Dated and awkward
Review: I will admit I only bought this book because E. Nesbit's Wouldbegoods are always talking about it and I wanted to find the things that influenced Nesbit. I can't get past page 10 of this thing. The language is very dated, English schoolboy slang, and I can't figure out half of what they are saying. It's not interesting enough to keep me trying to read it.
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Summary: Stalky & Co.
Review: This is my absolute favorite book of all time. Not only is the story brilliant - Stalky & Co. repeatedly outwitting their elders and peers in creative and innovative ways - but the language is pure gold. The book is chocked full of delightful gems of British schoolboy slang, from giglamps to fags to brollies - and the teachers' vocabulary is spectacular. Say what you like about Kipling, but this book is magnificent.
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Summary: The Complete Stalky & Co.
Review: This is one of the most enjoyable books that I have ever read. I have to order a new copy because the old one is falling apart from overuse. The book has been read by every member of the family, from my grandfather to nieces and nephews.
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Summary: The Complete Stalky & Co.
Review: This is one of the most enjoyable books that I have ever read. I have to order a new copy because the old one is falling apart from overuse. The book has been read by every member of the family, from my grandfather to nieces and nephews.
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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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