The Transmutation of Ling
| First published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Novella |
| Series | Kai Lung |
Notes
This story has been sometimes published by itself and sometimes bracketed by a framing story about Kai Lung. It first appeared as chapter 1 of ''The Wallet of Kai Lung'' in 1900 with the framing story. It was then reprinted as a standalone chapbook as ''The Transmutation of Ling'' in 1911 (and then again in 1912), but it is not known whether the framing story was included. Finally, it was reprinted in Lin Carter's ''Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy II'' in 1973 without the framing story.
Publications (41)
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Grant Richards | Collection | 1 | |
| 1900 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | L. C. Page | Collection | ||
| 1903 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Grant Richards | Collection | 1 | |
| 1911 | The Transmutation of Ling | Grant Richards | Chapbook | ||
| 1912 | The Transmutation of Ling | Brentano's | Chapbook | ||
| April 1917 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Methuen | Collection | ||
| May 1919 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Methuen | Collection | ||
| May 1919 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Methuen | Collection | ||
| 1923 |
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The Wallet of Kai Lung | George H. Doran | Collection | 9 |
| 1923 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Grant Richards | Collection | 1 | |
| 1923 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Grant Richards | Collection | 1 | |
| January 1923 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Methuen | Collection | ||
| March 1923 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Methuen | Collection | ||
| July 1923 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Methuen | Collection | ||
| February 1924 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Methuen | Collection | ||
| 1926 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Jonathan Cape | Collection | |2 | |
| September 1926 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Methuen | Collection | ||
| 1927 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Methuen | Collection | ||
| 1927 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Jonathan Cape | Collection | 7 | |
| 1929 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Jonathan Cape | Collection | 7 | |
| 1931 |
|
The Wallet of Kai Lung | Jonathan Cape | Collection | 7 |
| 1936 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | The Richards Press | Collection | 1 | |
| 1936 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | John Lane, The Bodley Head | Collection | ||
| March 1936 |
|
The Wallet of Kai Lung | Penguin Books | Collection | |
| 1942 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Methuen | Collection | |7 | |
| 1943 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | The Richards Press | Collection | 1 | |
| 1944 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | The Richards Press | Collection | 1 | |
| 1946 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | The Richards Press | Collection | 1 | |
| 1951 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | The Richards Press | Collection | 1 | |
| 1954 |
|
The Wallet of Kai Lung | Penguin Books | Collection | 7 |
| 1963 |
|
The Celestial Omnibus | The Richards Press | Collection | |1 |
| 1971 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | John Baker | Collection | |2 | |
| March 1973 |
|
Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy: Volume II | Ballantine Books | Anthology | 66 |
| September 1986 |
|
The Wallet of Kai Lung | Oxford University Press | Collection | 7 |
| October 1997 | The Wallet of Kai Lung | Project Gutenberg | Collection | ||
| April 2008 |
|
Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy: Volume II | Wildside Press | Anthology | 66 |
| May 2012 |
|
The Wallet of Kai Lung | Collection | |1 | |
| November 2015 |
|
The Wallet of Kai Lung | Gateway / Orion | Collection | |
| March 2018 |
|
The Classic Fantasy Collection | Sirius / Arcturus Publishing | Anthology | 601 |
| April 2020 |
|
Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy: Volume II | Gateway / Orion | Anthology | |66 |
| August 2020 |
|
The Wallet of Kai Lung | Bibliotech Press | Collection |