Stalky Co. is a book published in 1899 (following serialization in the Windsor Magazine) by Rudyard Kipling, about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of linked short stories in format, with some information about the charismatic Stalky character in later life. The character Beetle, one of the main trio, is partly based on Kipling himself. Stalky is based on Lionel Dunsterville, M'Turk is based on George Charles Beresford, Mr King is based on William Carr Crofts. The school, which is referred to as the College or the Coll. is based on the United Services College in Devon which Kipling attended. The stories have elements of revenge, the macabre (dead cats), bullying and violence, and hints about sex, making them far from childish or idealized, unlike the typical school story. The critic Edmund Wilson, in The Wound and the Bow, was both shocked and uncomprehending about them. For example, Beetle pokes fun at an earlier, more earnest, boys' book, Eric, or, Little by Little, thus flaunting his more worldly outlook.
Stalky Co. is a book published in 1899 (following serialization in the Windsor Magazine) by Rudyard Kipling, about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of linked short stories in format, with some information about the charismatic Stalky character in later life. The character Beetle, one of the main trio, is partly based on Kipling himself. Stalky is based on Lionel Dunsterville, M'Turk is based on George Charles Beresford, Mr King is based on William Carr Crofts. The school, which is referred to as the College or the Coll. is based on the United Services College in Devon which Kipling attended. The stories have elements of revenge, the macabre (dead cats), bullying and violence, and hints about sex, making them far from childish or idealized, unlike the typical school story. The critic Edmund Wilson, in The Wound and the Bow, was both shocked and uncomprehending about them. For example, Beetle pokes fun at an earlier, more earnest, boys' book, Eric, or, Little by Little, thus flaunting his more worldly outlook.
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Rudyard Kipling nació en Bombay, India, pero sus padres lo trasladaron a Londres a estudiar, por lo que durante unos cuantos años vivió separado de ellos. Según su familia, Kipling gozaba leyendo en voz alta sus propias historias y él mismo se reía a carcajadas de sus bromas. Al terminar los estudios, se dedicó al periodismo y a los veintiún años escribió su primer libro, al que le siguieron muchos más, entre poemas y narraciones, inspirados, en gran parte, en los viajes que durante años hizo por todo el mundo y en su interés por las ciencias naturales. En reconocimiento, el Reino Unido nombró una nueva especie de cocodrilo prehistórico con su nombre, el Goniopholis kiplingi. También se le nombró Caballero de la Orden del Imperio Británico en tres ocasiones, honores que rechazó, y en 1907 fue el ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura más joven hasta la fecha.
