The Pacha of Many Tales

• Arabian Nights parody
• The Pacha contains a frame story in which numerous stories are told. The frame story sometimes spans several pages and the 1834 review cited below covers the whole as a novel rather than a collection, albeit a novel that is worth praise only for the stories it contains.
• 1834 is correct for the first edition as a book (Philadelphia). [continued on the linked subpage]
• Published as a 20-part serial May 1831 to June 1835 in The Metropolitan Magazine #1 to #50, under serial headings such as (quote):   The Pacha of Many Tales--No. V.   By the author of "The King's Own." (v2, p317) and   The Pasha of Many Tales--No. XIII.   By the author of "The King's Own." (December 1831 and June 1834, viewed at HathiTrust). The spelling changes from "Pacha" to "Pasha" with an 's', in the text as well as the serial headings and volume index entries.
  
  Marryat edited The Metropolitan from sometime 1832 to sometime 1835. This serial publication overlapped those of four other Marryat novels, each in more than 12 consecutive monthly issues, and at least while editor he contributed short items also. [continued on the linked subpage]

{{BREAK}} 1. Published as a book in 1834 • Clute/Grant gives year 1835 (John Clute, below) --as "coll of linked stories". • Bleiler questions the 1834 US publication date (Phila.: Carey & Hart). The Journal of Belles Lettres (Philadelphia) 22 (1834-11-25) contains a listing in "New American Publications", p4, and a brief review, p2, quoted here in full: "Another and another of Captain Marryatt's prolific offspring. The Pacha appeared in the Metropolitan, from which it has been collected by Carey & Hart, and published in two duodecimo volumes. It partakes of the excellences and defects of the author's other productions, and contains, of course, some witty things: the wine merchant's story alone would save it from oblivion."

2. Published as a 20-part serial May 1831 to June 1835, a span of 50 monthly issues. There are 13 instalments numbered I to XIII and published to February 1933, a 15-month gap, and 7 instalments numbered XIII to XVII from June 1834. (Number XIII is used twice and XVI thrice.)

HathiTrust Digital Library holdings of The Metropolitan are incomplete but include all 1834/1835 issues, volumes 9-14, some as bound with volume title page and index. HathiTrust holdings of The Metropolitan include no 1832/1833 issues, vols 3-8, as of December 2018.

There is little difference in the text between serial and book publications. One difference is the spelling "Pacha" throughout the book.

Unknown source text The ebook proper, under the Gutenberg header, contains no front material other than these two lines:   Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England   The Pacha of Many Tales, by Captain Marryat. --quoting the plain text version; fashioned differently in other formats.
---- Speculative fiction content only. Data from Bleiler's "Science-Fiction: The Early Years".
Published in three volumes.
An episodic novel with only the listed episodes of speculative fiction interest.

Year	Reviewer	Publication
1991	Everett F. Bleiler	Science Fiction: The Early Years