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Title: Mr. Captain and the Nymph Title Record # 1116938
Author: Wilkie Collins
Date: 1876-12-23
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: Supernatural elements in the form of Polynesian sorcery. Originally published as 'The Captain's Last Love' in The Spirit of the Times, 23 December 1876; and Belgravia, January 1877.
Synopsis: "The Fortuna is blown off course in the South Pacific and visits an uncharted Polynesian island. While trading with the local inhabitants, the Captain falls in love with the Priest's daughter, Aimata. He plans to bring her to England but she is drowned during a volcanic eruption. The Captain now hates the sea and will never marry."—Wilkie Collins Information Pages
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1876●”Published as ‘The Captain's Last Love' in The Spirit of the Times (23 December 1876); retitled ‘Mr Captain and the Nymph' for its republication in Little Novels (1887). This story may possibly use material from Iolani, Collins's first novel written in 1884 and which remained unpublished until 1999.” — information from p 383 of Norman Page's collection of Wilkie Collins short fiction Mad Monkton and Other Stories.
The Captain's Last Love
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2020 Polish Wyspa Tabou

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Little Novels 1887-00-00 Wilkie Collins Chatto & Windus     319+
331+
303+
32
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Little Novels 1977-00-00 Wilkie Collins Dover Publications 0-486-23506-8
$3.00?$: US dollar
244
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Checkmark
Mad Monkton and Other Stories 1994-00-00 Wilkie Collins Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics) 0-19-282260-8
£5.99?£: UK pound
xxxviii+
383
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Caspar David Friedrich Checkmark
The Dream-Woman and Other Stories 1998-09-00 Wilkie Collins Phoenix (Phoenix Short Stories) 0-7538-0454-9
£3.99?£: UK pound
x+
241
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Richard Prideaux  
Little Novels 2008-10-15 Wilkie Collins Project Gutenberg 1630
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Wilkie Collins: Volume 3 2009-07-00 Wilkie Collins Leonaur Ltd (Leonaur Supernatural Fiction Series) 978-1-84677-825-4
£14.99?£: UK pound
568
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll  
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Wilkie Collins: Volume 3 2009-07-00 Wilkie Collins Leonaur Ltd (Leonaur Supernatural Fiction Series) 978-1-84677-826-1
£22.99?£: UK pound
568
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
HYNH+ Vol. III. Nr 3/4 2020-07-00 ed. Artur Nowakowski,
Konrad Zieliński?Konrad Zielinski
GSF     287
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Artur Nowakowski  
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