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Black Heart and White Heart

H. Rider Haggard

First published 1900
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

<br> "Black Heart and White Heart" is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. --Author's Note, 1900, UK (<a href="/story/1142192/">see</a>)


First published in January 1896: • African Review, UK monthly magazine • as a 4-part serial, Sundays 1890-01-05 to -01-26, US newspapers One automated search finds the serial in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Atlanta Constitution, Nashville Tennessean, and San Francisco Chronicle. The first three use subtitle "A Zulu Idyll" (or Idyl), credit H. Rider Haggard, and contain uncredited illustrations by {{a|Dan Beard}} (probably, from the signature). SF Chronicle uses no subtitle, credits Rider Haggard, and contains uncredited illustrations by "Newberry" (clearly signed).

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1900 Black Heart and White Heart, and Other Stories Longmans, Green and Co. Collection 1
1900 Cover Elissa: The Doom of Zimbabwe / Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll Longmans, Green and Co. Collection |2
1900 Black Heart and White Heart; and Elissa Tauchnitz Collection 9
1903 Black Heart and White Heart, and Other Stories Longmans, Green and Co. Collection 1
1907 The Wizard and Black Heart and White Heart George Newnes Collection
1924 Black Heart and White Heart and the Wizard Hodder & Stoughton Collection
1981 Cover The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard Michael Joseph Collection 68
December 1982 Cover Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Fantasy of the 19th Century Beaufort Books Anthology 301
1983 Cover Fantasy-Erzählungen des 19. Jahrhunderts Heyne Anthology 409
April 1984 Cover Witches Signet / New American Library Anthology 303
August 1984 Cover 13 Short Fantasy Novels Greenwich House / Crown Publishers Anthology 139
October 1985 Cover La nuit des pharaons Néo Collection 113
1986 Cover The Mammoth Book of Short Fantasy Novels Robinson Anthology 139
June 1986 The Mammoth Book of Short Fantasy Novels Robinson Anthology 139
February 1992 Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Fantasy of the 19th Century Knightsbridge Anthology |14
2002 Cover Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others Wildside Press Collection 130
August 2003 Cover Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy Del Rey / Ballantine Anthology 133
September 2003 Cover Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy Del Rey / Ballantine Anthology 133
November 2005 Cover Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy Del Rey / Ballantine Anthology 167
March 2006 Black Heart and White Heart Project Gutenberg Chapbook
January 2011 Cover Black Heart and White Heart: LibriVox Chapbook
2023 Cover African Horrors Sam Teddy Publishing Anthology 65