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His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp

John Collier

First published November 1930
Type Novel

<br> "Alike in tone to his short fiction, his first novel, <i>His Monkey Wife, or, Married to a Chimp</i> (1930), is an <u>Equipoisal</u> <u>Apes as Human</u> tale whose treatment of the theme is conspicuously ruthless." (underscores represent two linked cross-references) --SFE3, biographical entry by John Clute


Collier's first novel According to Wikipedia (April 2019), "his career did not take shape until the publication of His Monkey Wife in 1930. It enjoyed a certain small popularity and critical approval that helped to sell his short stories. ... [more on this work]"

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1930 Cover His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp Peter Davies Novel
1931 Cover His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp D. Appleton & Company Novel
1931 His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp Tauchnitz Novel
1933 His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp Macmillan and Co. Novel
1957 His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp Hart-Davis Novel
1957 His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp Doubleday Novel
1957 His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp Doubleday Novel
November 1969 Cover His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp Chatto & Windus Novel
November 1972 Cover The John Collier Reader Alfred A. Knopf Collection 1
July 1975 Cover His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp Pocket Books Novel
December 1983 Cover His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp Oxford University Press Novel
June 1994 Cover His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp Robin Clark Novel
2000 Cover His Monkey Wife, or, Married to a Chimp Paul Dry Books Novel