![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() … It is simply impossible to show by mere quotation the horrible vileness of the book describing these three small fiends in human likeness only a perusal of the whole work would convey to the reader its truly repulsive character … The vulgarity, the brutality, the savagery … reeks on every page.’ `Only the spoiled child of an utterly brutalised public could possibly have written Stalky & Co. `Mr Kipling obviously aims at verisimilitude the picture he draws is at any rate repulsive and disgusting enough to be true,’ wrote Robert Buchanan, his most virulent critic. Benson’s description of them as `little beasts’ to Maugham’s magisterial `a more odious picture of school life can seldom have been drawn’, the disapproval of Kipling’s contemporaries was made thunderously clear. From Wells’s condemnation of the heroes as self-righteous bullies and A. since the stories first appeared in book form in 1899. Ĭomments like this one of George Sampson’s have dogged Stalky & Co. ‘An unpleasant book about unpleasant boys at an unpleasant school’. ![]()
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