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The Scarred Lover

Frederick Marryat

First published 1834
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

    From The Pacha of Many Tales (1834) From volume II, chapter 7, in the 1835 and 1849 eds. identified below
  • The story begins under a mid-page heading and continues under an identical running title, "The Scarred Lover." It ends with a blank line. The chapter begins with a few pages and ends with a few paragraphs of the frame story. --Saunders and Otley, 1834, vol II, pp. 224-82 (3 vols) --Bentley, 1849, pp. 228-51 (3 vols in one) (viewed at HathiTrust)
  • That chapter was published June 1834 as one instalment of an irregular serial, The Metropolitan Magazine (London: Saunders and Otley), vol. 10, page 158-71, under the heading ('Pasha', not 'Pacha'):   The Pasha of Many Tales.--No. XIII.   By the author of "The King's Own." The contained story is not named, nor distinguished by any heading.

    That instalment is the earliest listed in any 1834 volume index (vols 9-11, viewed at HathiTrust)--and the earliest instalment known as of December 2018 (HathiTrust holds no 1832/1833 volume).

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1834 The Pacha of Many Tales Carey & Hart Collection |8
1835 The Pacha of Many Tales Saunders and Otley Collection 231|2231
1836 The Pacha of Many Tales Wallis & Newell Collection 128
1849 The Pacha of Many Tales Richard Bentley Collection 230
1873 The Pacha of Many Tales D. Appleton & Company Collection 239
July 1937 Cover Fifty Enthralling Stories of the Mysterious East Odhams Press Anthology 567
May 2007 The Pacha of Many Tales Project Gutenberg Collection |8