![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I suggest that good naughties characterize the manner in which “naughty boys may defend Western Civilization.” Though the narrative structure could be read in one way as a sort of “boys-to-men” tale, in the course of which boys use the wild and “fanciful” escapades of their youth as lessons that aid them in their “real” lives as grown men, it is more profitable to consider the nature of the boyish life that illustrates good qualities in itself. with a final tale about the young men all grown up. The reason for my reticence finds basis in the all-too-abundant collection of “good naughties” that in the book one therein finds-the kind of good naughties that every child must pursue, but that no adult can properly recommend.Īlthough Kipling’s novel reads more as a rag-tag collection of short stories than a novel, Kipling gives proper narrative shape to his quasi-autobiographical tales about a band of three young men attending a preparatory high school in England by concluding Stalky and Co. ![]() Kipling’s first book championing the great man “Stalky” is near the top of my list of must-read literature for adolescent men, though it is a book that I have never recommended to said young men. ![]()
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