Title: The World's Desire

Title: The World's Desire Title Record # 23782
Authors: H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang
Date: 1890-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: visualhaggard.org, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: Published as a serial in The New Review, April to December 1890, without illustrations. --VisualHaggard.org (above)

Synopsis: "... a continuation of the Odysseus myth. In this romance, Aphrodite compels Odysseus to leave his ruined home in Ithaca in pursuit of Helen of Troy, his love before Penelope." --VisualHaggard.org

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1930^ⓘTranslated by H. Brok-Troelstra	Dutch	'S Werelds Begeren [as by H. Rider Haggard]
1985^ⓘTranslated by Hans Maeter	German	Das Sehnen der Welt [as by Henry Rider Haggard]
1998^ⓘTranslated by Cristiano Sassetti.	Italian	Ulisse: Il viaggio del desiderio
2009^ⓘTranslated by Javier Martín Lalanda.	Spanish	El Deseo del Mundo

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The World's Desire	1890-00-00	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Longmans, Green and Co.			viii+ 316	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The World's Desire	1890-00-00	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Harper & Brothers			274	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The World's Desire	1894-00-00	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Longmans, Green and Co.			316	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The World's Desire	1920-00-00	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Hodder & Stoughton		2/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	260	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The World's Desire	1924-00-00	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Hodder & Stoughton			260	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
'S Werelds Begeren	1930-00-00	H. Rider Haggard	W. de Haan			282	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The World's Desire	1953-00-00	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Macdonald (Macdonald Illustrated Edition)		8/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).		hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Geoffrey Whittam
The World's Desire	1972-00-00	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Pan / Ballantine (Ballantine Adult Fantasy #40)	0-345-09761-0	£0.40^?£: UK pound	xvi+ 239	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Mati Klarwein
The World's Desire	1972-01-00	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Ballantine Books (Ballantine Adult Fantasy #40)	0-345-02467-2	$1.25^?$: US dollar	xvi+ 239	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Mati Klarwein
The World's Desire	1972-01-00	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Ballantine Books (Ballantine Adult Fantasy #40)	0-345-02467-2	C$1.25^?C$: Canadian dollar	xvi+ 239	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Mati Klarwein
The World's Desire	1977-12-00	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-27218-8	$1.95^?$: US dollar	239	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Michael Herring
Das Sehnen der Welt	1985-00-00	Henry Rider Haggard	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4138)	3-453-31194-9	DM 7.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	283	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Ulisse: Il viaggio del desiderio	1998-03-00	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Fanucci Editore	88-347-0603-X	Lit 16,900^?Lit: Italian lira	346	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.	novel	Franca Vitali
The World's Desire	2001-00-00	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Wildside Press	1-58715-354-8	$19.50^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 316	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.	novel
The World's Desire	2006-04-04	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	Project Gutenberg	2763			ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
El Deseo del Mundo	2009-06-03	H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang	La Biblioteca del Laberinto (Delirio #25)	978-84-92492-28-2	€18.00^?€: Euro	218	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.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Michael Scott Rohan [as by Mike Scott Rohan] (1978) in Paperback Parlour, August 1978
Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 145 - 294)