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Long Odds

H. Rider Haggard

First published 1889
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Allan Quatermain #7


First published in Macmillan's Magazine, February 1886, without illustrations. --VisualHaggard.org (above) VH calls that 1886 publication a serial, but Macmillan's was a monthly, 1859 to 1907 --"the first of the literary shilling monthlies", according to The FictionMags Index, which contains reports from few issues, none during the 1880s.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1889 Cover Allan's Wife and Other Tales Spencer Blackett Collection 309
1896 Cover Stories by English Authors: Africa Charles Scribner's Sons Anthology 31
1927 Allan's Wife and Other Tales Longmans, Green and Co. Collection
1951 Cover Allan's Wife and Other Tales Macdonald Collection
October 1980 Cover Allan's Wife Newcastle Publishing Collection 223
1981 Cover The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard Michael Joseph Collection 42
2002 Cover Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others Wildside Press Collection 7
August 2003 Cover Hunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain Peter Owen Collection 53
January 2004 Cover Hunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain Dufour Editions Collection 53
March 2006 Long Odds Project Gutenberg Chapbook
January 2014 Cover Hunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain Peter Owen Collection
February 2014 Cover Hunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain Peter Owen Collection
April 2016 Cover Ultimate Collection e-artnow Omnibus |7