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Title: The Finest Story in the World Title Record # 78266
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Date: 1891-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: First published in the Contemporary Review, July 1891.
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1893 'The Finest Story in the World'
1965 "The Finest Story in the World"
Year Language Title
1927Translated by Hans Reisinger (1927)
German
Die schönste Geschichte der Welt?Die schoenste Geschichte der Welt
1940Translated by an unknown hand
Spanish "El cuento más hermoso del mundo"
1974Translated by Louis Fabulet & Robert d'Humières
French La plus belle histoire du monde
1994Translated by Matti Rosvall
Finnish Maailman hienoin tarina

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Many Inventions 1893-00-00 Rudyard Kipling Macmillan and Co.     IX+
365+
6
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Travelers in Time, Strange Tales of Man's Journeyings Into the Past and the Future 1947-07-00 ed. Philip Van Doren Stern Doubleday  
$3.50?$: US dollar
483
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
World of Wonder 1951-08-00 ed. Fletcher Pratt Twayne Publishers  
$3.95?$: US dollar
445
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Herbstman Checkmark
World of Wonder 1951-10-00 ed. Fletcher Pratt Twayne Publishers  
$3.95?$: US dollar
445
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Herbstman Checkmark
Phantoms and Fantasies: 20 Tales 1965-00-00 Rudyard Kipling Doubleday  
$3.95?$: US dollar
[10]+
302
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Burt Silverman Checkmark
The Light Fantastic 1971-03-00 ed. Harry Harrison Charles Scribner's Sons 0-684-10228-5
$5.95?$: US dollar
216
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
The Light Fantastic: Science Fiction Classics from the Mainstream 1971-10-00 ed. Harry Harrison Charles Scribner's Sons (Scribner Library Emblem Editions #316) 0-684-12565-X
$2.45?$: US dollar
216
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.
anth  
The Light Fantastic 1972-05-00 ed. Harry Harrison Charles Scribner's Sons (Scribner Library Emblem Editions #316) 0-684-12565-X
$2.45?$: US dollar
216
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.
anth Checkmark
L'Angleterre fantastique de Defoe à Wells 1974-00-00 ed. Jacques Van Herp Marabout (Anthologie du Fantastique)     426
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.
anth  
Strange Adventures in Time 1974-01-00 ed. Roger Lancelyn Green J. M. Dent (Children's Illustrated Classics #97) 0-460-05097-4   ix+
147
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth George Adamson Checkmark
Antología de la literatura fantástica 1977-00-00 ed. Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo Edhasa + Sudamericana (Pocket Edhasa #8) 84-350-0165-2   435
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.
anth Checkmark
Stories from Rudyard Kipling 1980-00-00 Rudyard Kipling The Franklin Library     435
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1981 1981-04-00 ed. Wolfgang Jeschke Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3790) 3-453-30693-7
DM 5.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
474+
[1]
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.
anth Jim Burns Checkmark
Letzte Bestellung: 9 Romane und Erzählungen prominenter Sf-Autoren 1983-00-00 ed. Wolfgang Jeschke Deutscher Bücherbund     463
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling 1987-01-00 Rudyard Kipling W. H. Allen 0-491-03285-4
£12.95?£: UK pound
427
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
John Brunner Presents Kipling's Fantasy: Stories by Rudyard Kipling 1992-11-00 Rudyard Kipling Tor 0-312-85354-8
$17.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
206
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Bryn Barnard Checkmark
Pedon merkki ja muita kauhuja 1994-00-00 Rudyard Kipling
Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö?Werner Soederstroem Osakeyhtioe
Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio
(FAN)
951-0-18939-1   254
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 Jukka Murtosaari Checkmark
The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales 2000-11-00 Rudyard Kipling Dover Publications (Dover Horror Classics) 0-486-41429-9
$8.95?$: US dollar
xiii+
188
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 Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories 2001-09-01 Rudyard Kipling Project Gutenberg 2806    
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories 2005-12-21 Rudyard Kipling Dodo Press 1-4065-0318-5
$7.99?$: US dollar
120
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 Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales 2007-02-00 Rudyard Kipling Gollancz / Orion (Millennium / Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks #50) 0-575-07791-3
£7.99?£: UK pound
xii+
785
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
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy 2008-01-01 Rudyard Kipling Pegasus Books 978-1-933648-78-1
$17.95?$: US dollar
800
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  
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy 2008-11-17 Rudyard Kipling Pegasus Books 978-1-60598-030-0
$19.95?$: US dollar
800
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  
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy 2009-04-00 Rudyard Kipling Pegasus Books / SFBC 62-1254
$10.99?$: US dollar
800
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  
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy 2010-00-00 Rudyard Kipling Fall River Press 978-1-4351-2005-1   viii+
785
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories 2010-03-06 Rudyard Kipling General Books 978-1-153-71612-3
$20.00?$: US dollar
82
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 Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales 2010-11-11 Rudyard Kipling Gollancz 978-0-575-08601-2
£4.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories 2013-04-27 Rudyard Kipling CreateSpace 978-1-4848-3175-5
$5.49?$: US dollar
82
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  
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror & Fantasy 2014-05-01 Rudyard Kipling Pegasus Books 978-1-60598-664-7
$19.95?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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