Stilks Erindringer

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PitcherBooks: Kipling's STALKY & CO. is about three British school boys: Stalky, M'Turk and Beetle. The originals were, respectively, Lionel C. Dunsterville, George Beresford and Joseph Rudyard Kipling... [Dunsterville's memoir] is low-key, humorous, tongue-in-cheek, skipping through the author's life ... with an eye often on the comical and ordinary - T. Patrick Killough, Amzn Reviewer. Stalky's Reminiscences (aka Stalky's Adventures) is by the real Stalky and includes his recollections of Kipling. 'The real Stalky, General Dunsterville, who is so delightful a character that the fictitious Stalky must at times feel jealous of him as a rival..In the war he proved his genius in the Dunster Force adventure and in this book he shows that he possesses another kind of genius - the genius of comic self-revelation and burbling anecdote. And the whole story is told in a vain of comedy that would have done credit to Charles Lever' - The Observer… (mere)