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The Pearl of Love

H. G. Wells

First published 1925
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

<br> A fable, in which a prince whose beloved dies spends years building a grand tomb for her, until ultimately his appreciation for the architecture itself eclipses his memory of his love.


Published December 1925 in The Strand Magazine (London) with illustrations by {{a|Charles Robinson}}. --The FictionMags Index

That is the first publication according to Wikipedia (2020-05-07). FictionMags identifies instead "The Atlantic Edition of the Works of H.G. Wells, Unwin 1924", probably referring to a volume dated 1925 (below, Unwin (UK) and Scribner's (US)). The next story by Wells that FictionMags lists, alphabetically by title, is "Pearl of Love: Allegory", as a short story published December 1925 in The Forum (New York). That may be the same story.
Wikipedia

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1925 In the Days of the Comet and Seventeen Short Stories T. Fisher Unwin Omnibus
1925 In the Days of the Comet and Seventeen Short Stories Charles Scribner's Sons Omnibus
January 1926 The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Tauchnitz Collection |11
1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 184
1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 184
1927 The Time Machine and Other Stories Ernest Benn Collection |7
September 1927 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 184
October 1927 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 184
1929 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection
1929 The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells The Literary Guild Collection
March 1930 Tales That Enthral: A Selection of Twenty-Nine of the World's Best Short Stories Grant Richards Anthology |30
1933 The Soul of a Bishop and Three Short Stories Waterlow & Sons Omnibus
1937 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 158
1937 The Favorite Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 158
1938 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Garden City Publishing Co. Collection 158
1938 Cover The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 158
1946 Cover 33 Sardonics I Can't Forget Philosophical Library Anthology 352
1946 33 Sardonics I Can't Forget McLeod Anthology |30
1947 33 Sardonics I Can't Forget John Crowther Anthology |30
1948 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 184
1957 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 184
1960 Cover The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 162
1965 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection
September 1966 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 162
1974 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 162
1987 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells St. Martin's Press Collection 162
September 1990 Cover The Empire of the Ants and Other Short Stories / L'Empire des fourmis et autres nouvelles Le Livre de Poche Collection 297
February 1992 Cover Lovers & Other Monsters GuildAmerica Books / SFBC Anthology 143
September 1993 Lovers & Other Monsters Longmeadow Press Anthology 143
August 1998 Cover The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells J. M. Dent Collection 625
December 2006 Cover The Man Who Could Work Miracles Tartarus Press Collection
2009 Cover A Dream of Armageddon: The Complete Supernatural Tales Fall River Press Collection 339
January 2009 Cover A Dream of Armageddon Cybraria Collection
May 2010 Cover A Dream of Armageddon Kessinger Collection
April 2011 Cover Complete Short Story Omnibus Gollancz Collection 679