It Can't Happen Here

1935 dystopian novel by Sinclair Lewis
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It Can't Happen Here
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It Can't Happen Here

Summary

It Can't Happen Here is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,162 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • It Can't Happen Here authored Sinclair Lewis[3].
  • It Can't Happen Here's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • It Can't Happen Here was published by Doubleday[5].
  • It Can't Happen Here's genre is science fiction[6].
  • It Can't Happen Here's genre is dystopian fiction[7].
  • It Can't Happen Here's genre is political fiction[8].
  • It Can't Happen Here's Commons category is recorded as It Can't Happen Here[9].
  • It Can't Happen Here's language of work or name is recorded as American English[10].
  • It Can't Happen Here's country of origin is recorded as United States[11].
  • It Can't Happen Here was released on October 21, 1935[12].
  • It Can't Happen Here's characters is recorded as Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip[13].
  • It Can't Happen Here's characters is recorded as Doremus Jessup[14].
  • It Can't Happen Here's narrative location is recorded as United States[15].
  • It Can't Happen Here's main subject is fascism[16].
  • It Can't Happen Here's main subject is freedom of the press[17].
  • It Can't Happen Here's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'It Can’t Happen Here'}[18].
  • It Can't Happen Here's different from is recorded as The Plot Against America[19].
  • It Can't Happen Here's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountains, had been reserved for the Ladies' Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah Rotary Club."}[20].
  • It Can't Happen Here's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'And still Doremus goes on in the red sunrise, for a Doremus Jessup can never die.'}[21].
  • It Can't Happen Here's copyright status is recorded as public domain[22].
  • It Can't Happen Here's form of creative work is recorded as novel[23].

Body

Authorship and Creation

It Can't Happen Here authored Sinclair Lewis[3]. It was published by Doubleday[5].

Publication

It Can't Happen Here was released on October 21, 1935[12]. Its language of work or name is recorded as American English[10]. Genres include science fiction[6], dystopian fiction[7], and political fiction[8].

Subject and Themes

Main subjects include fascism[16] and freedom of the press[17].

Why It Matters

It Can't Happen Here ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,162 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . archive.org. Retrieved . archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . archive.org. Retrieved . archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . publicdomainreview.org. publicdomainreview.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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