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Stalky and Co.

By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
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 Based on Kipling's own adolescent experiences, Stalky and Co. is a cunning story of mischievous 19th century British schoolboys attempting scholastic mutiny. The faculty and headmaster of a boys' private school repeatedly pursue a trio of poetic pranksters, "Stalky", "Beetle", and "Turkey", as they wage war on fellow students and the "establishment" with unwavering energy and creativity.

Stalky and Co. is, at times, poignant in its realistic portrayal of boys negotiating manhood, and hilarious in its illustration of their relentless attempts to beat the system, even in the face of creative punishment and a savvy housemaster. Listeners of all ages will delight in this tale of ingenious schemes and rebellious antics.

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I love this book set in North Devon where my family holidayed each summer in the1950s. Unfortunately the reader mispronounces so many of the words that it irritated me so much that I changed to a different version altogether. For instance 'combe' rhymes with doom not home, mostly 'row' in this story matches cow and now rather than low and the word precis has a silent 's. The accents are a very pod mix - M'turk should be Irish and the local characters ought to have the burred soft West Country accent as often used by Monty Python to portray country yokels.

sad to say the reading ruins this delightful book

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