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John Huxford's Hiatus

Arthur Conan Doyle

First published June 1888
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Young John Huxford left his wife to find work, but was robbed and hit on the head and lost his memory. He made a new life, and only after 50 years did his memory return. He went back to his wife and found that she had been keeping their home exactly the same all those decades in hopes he might turn up.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1888 The Cornhill Magazine, June 1888 Smith, Elder & Co. MAGAZINE 598
1890 Cover The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales Longmans, Green and Co. Collection 171
1891 The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales Bernhard Tauchnitz Collection 170
1892 Cover The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales Longmans, Green and Co. Collection 171
1893 Cover The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales Longmans, Green and Co. Collection 171
September 1894 The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Stories Rand McNally & Company Collection 112
1911 Cover The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales Longmans, Green and Co. Collection
1912 Cover The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales Smith, Elder & Co. Collection 171
1914 Cover The Captain of the Pole-Star Hodder & Stoughton Collection 143
January 1914 Cover The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales Hodder & Stoughton Collection 143
1971 Cover The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales Books for Libraries Press Collection 171
July 2008 The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales Project Gutenberg Collection |6