Print history of 'The Mortal
Immortal'
This page indicates the various publications in
which 'The Mortal Immortal' was published between
1833 and 1990. Professor Charles Robinson's
comments come from his valuable note on 'The Mortal
Immortal' in his Mary Shelley: Collected
Tales and Stories.
- Manuscript: the 36-page fair-copy holograph
'The Mortal Immortal: A Tale' is in the
collection of The Houghton Library, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass.
- 'The Mortal Immortal: A Tale,' The
Keepsake for MDCCCXXXIV , ed. Frederic
Mansel Reynolds (London: Longman, Rees, Orme,
Brown, Green, and Longman [1833]) 71-87.
- 'The Mortal Immortal,' The Casquet of
Literature: being a Selection of Prose and Poetry
from the Works of the Most Admired Authors
, ed. Charles Gibbon, 4 vols. (London: Blackie
& Son, Limited, 1873) III, 353-59.
- 'The Mortal Immortal,' The Casquet of
Literature, being a Selection of Prose and Poetry
from the Works of the Most Admired Authors
, ed. Charles Gibbon and Mary Elizabeth Christie,
6 vols. (London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin:
Blackie & Son, Limited, 1896) III,
369-75.
- 'The Mortal Immortal,' The Library of
Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal
Authorship: The Masterpieces of the Standard
Writers of all Nations and All Time , ed.
Ainsworth R. Spofford and Charles Gibbon, 5 vols.
(Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., 1890) III,
353-59.
- 'The Mortal Immortal,' Tales and
Stories , ed. Richard Garnett, The
Treasure House of Tales by Great Authors
(London: William Paterson & Co., 1891)
148-64.
- The Mortal Immortal , Issued by
Mossant, Vallon & Co., n.d. [Charles Robinson
comments: "the text occupies 24 pages in this
unpaginated brochure owned by Sam Moskowitz and
believed by him to have been published between
1880 and 1910"].
- 'The Mortal Immortal,' Great Short
Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror ,
ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Second series (London:
Victor Gollancz, 1931) 1080-92.
- 'The Mortal Immortal,' A Century of
Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen , with a
Foreword by James Agate (London: Daily Express
Publications, 1934) 167-80.
- 'The Mortal Immortal,' Century of
Thrillers , 3 vols. (New York: President
Press, 1937) III, 94-106.
- 'The Mortal Immortal,' Masterpieces of
Science Fiction , ed. Sam Moskowitz
(Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Company,
1974; rpt. Westport, Connecticut: Hyperion Press,
1974) 44-59.
- 'Ms. Found in an Oxygen Bottle,' The
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
(December 1973) 88-100 [Charles Robinson
comments: "this story by [Gary] Jennings details
the further adventures of the Mortal Immortal and
incorporates substantial portions of Mary
Shelley's original tale"].
- 'The Mortal Immortal,' Mary Shelley:
Collected Tales and Stories , ed. Charles
E. Robinson (Baltimore and London: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1976) 219-30.
- 'The Mortal Immortal,' The Mary Shelley
Reader , ed. Betty Bennett and Charles E.
Robinson (New York and Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1990) 314-26.
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