![]() ![]() ![]() (Since I share Kipling's distaste for sports, this was one reason I quickly got bored with school stories and moved on to novels written for adults.) Rowling, invariably take the easy way out and use The Big Match as the dramatic highpoint of their school stories. Later writers obviously heavily influenced by Stalky & co., from P.G. Cricket and rugby take place entirely off-stage and have no significant impact on the story. One area in which other writers of school stories didn't follow Kipling's example is his utter lack of interest in team games. Stalky and his friends find plenty of opportunities in the course of the book to mock the Eric, or Little by little type of school story. In many ways, this is the template for the post-Victorian British school story, in which more attention is paid to fun and less to moralising. Obviously, this argument has its weaknesses, but we can read and enjoy the book without taking it too seriously. ![]() Show More developed by spending ones teenage years engaged in guerrilla warfare against incompetent and self-important schoolmasters. ![]()
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