From WSJbooks: From Rudyard Kipling’s “Stalky & Co.” to Sheila Kohler’s “Cracks,” author H.S. Cross shares the five best novels about boarding school:
1. Each chapter of “Stalky & Co.” narrates a discrete episode in the adventures of Stalky, McTurk and Beetle.
The three friends attend “the ‘Coll,’ ” a fictionalized version of Rudyard Kipling’s own boarding school, and have no use for school spirit, prefects, athletics or any ideals the school story was designed to promote. Instead the trio values cleverness, humor, poetic justice and loyalty. No one understands irony quite like Kipling, and mixed with young Stalky’s meticulous...
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