The central character, Charlie Meare, has ambitions to become a great writer. Kipling (acting as the narrator) first meets him in a gaming club where he is clearly known and advises him that gaming is not a good pastime for an ambitious young man. Charlie reads Kipling many of his poems and stories that, according to Kipling, are poor and lacking in skill.

177 short stories.

"These stories and poems cover the full range of Kipling's career from the youthful volumes that brought him fame as the chronicler of British India, to the bittersweet fruits of age and bereavement in the aftermath of the First World War" --back cover.

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time "I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author's short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel. And for good reason. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice, the echt Moshfeghian experience, is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion. Moshfegh is our Flannery O'Connor, and Homesick for Another World is her Everything That Rises Must Converge or A Good Man is Hard to Find. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating. We're in the hands of an author with a big mind, a big heart, blazing chops, and a political acuity that is needle-sharp. The needle hits the vein before we even feel the prick.

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✅ A great short story for young people and adults of the famous Novel Prize (1907) Rudyard Kipling, author of great works of world literature; a work revised and translated to offer you the BEST TITLES IN UNIVERSAL LITERATURE → Acquire this book and enjoy the pleasure of reading ... Synopsis of the book: Charlie Mears is a twenty-year-old bank employee with literary aspirations whose motivation at that moment is to write what he considers to be "The most beautiful story in the world." In some billiard rooms he coincides with a writer, to whom he shows the bases of his story, which he will title "The story of a ship." He will be absorbed by the overwhelming imagination with which the boy describes the ship as a Greek galot, providing all kinds of details very difficult to know by a simple boy who was a bank employee and who had hardly read anything until now. How is it possible that such a young boy, who has barely read, can narrate historical adventures with such ease and detail? Later appointments between the two take place, in which Charlie continues to describe with great clarity of detail, situations on the boat, the rowers, the arrangement of the oars ... etc. After successive sessions, the writer reaches the terrifying conclusion that the boy is having a kind of transmigrations of his soul called metempsychosis, which are extreme dualisms, the soul changes body after death. It thus concludes that Charlie had definitely been in other times, a kind of Greek galley (man who paddled in a forced way on galleys). It is predictable the ecstasy that the writer suffers before that great opportunity that he has in front of him to be able to write stories in real time, of things that happened thousands of years ago ... Biography: Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British writer and poet, author of great stories, children's stories, novels and poetry, such as The Jungle The Book (1894), the spy novel Kim (1901), the short story "The Man Who Would Be King" ("The Man Who Could Be King", 1888), many of which were made into a movie. He rejected several awards at the time but in 1907 he accepted and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, which made him the first British writer to receive this award, and the youngest Nobel Prize winner for Literature to date.