![]() ![]() It is paradoxical that Kipling, known later on for his authoritarian politics, should, in this novel about school life, have seemingly approved such a concerted challenge to institutional authority. ![]() Dunsterville-employ "stalkiness," a school-word defined as the capacity for "clever, well-considered, wily" action, 1 to defy the traditions of the public school and assert the values of boyhood. describes how three boy heroes-Beetle, who was modelled on Kipling, and McTurk and Stalky, modelled on two boyhood friends, G. The most immediate task facing the boy arriving alone at school was finding a "chum." Stalky & Co. Abandoned to a rather Spartan world, the boys at Westward Ho! were cast on their own resources and boy-society flourished. It is a public school novel based on Kipling's memories of his own schooldays at United Services College, Westward Ho! Situated at Bideford by the sea, in an out-of-the-way corner of the country, the school was rarely visited by parents, many of whom were, in any case, like Kipling's parents, stationed in India. Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co., 1899, is an unusual book by an unusual man. ![]()
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