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Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help

Summary

Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help authored Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help — author (P50): Larissa MacFarquhar[3].
  • Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help's instance of is recorded as Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help — instance of (P31): literary work[4].
  • Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help's publisher is recorded as Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help — publisher (P123): Penguin Group[5].
  • Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help's OCLC number is recorded as 960037040[6].
  • Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help's language of work or name is recorded as Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help — language of work or name (P407): English[7].
  • Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help's publication date is recorded as +2015-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help's main subject is recorded as Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help — main subject (P921): Gutmensch[9].
  • Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help's main subject is recorded as Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help — main subject (P921): altruism[10].
  • Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help — inspired by (P941): Famine, Affluence, and Morality inspired Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help[11].
  • Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help's OCLC work ID is recorded as 3149209217[12].
  • Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help's Penguin Random House work ID is recorded as 307790[13].

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Works and Contributions

Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help authored Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help — author (P50): Larissa MacFarquhar[3].

Why It Matters

Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6 views/month).[2]

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Class ancestry

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  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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