The Crying of Lot 49

1965 novel by Thomas Pynchon
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The Crying of Lot 49

Summary

The Crying of Lot 49 is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (791 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Crying of Lot 49 authored Thomas Pynchon[3].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's image is recorded as MutedPosthorn.png[4].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's image is recorded as The Crying of Lot 49 (1965 1st ed cover).jpg[5].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's instance of is recorded as literary work[6].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's genre is recorded as science fiction[7].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's genre is recorded as postmodern fiction[8].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's genre is recorded as metafiction[9].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's genre is recorded as secret history[10].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's genre is recorded as paranoid fiction[11].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's follows is recorded as V.[12].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's followed by is recorded as Gravity's Rainbow[13].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12112767h[14].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's language of work or name is recorded as English[15].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's country of origin is recorded as United States[16].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's publication date is recorded as +1966-01-01T00:00:00Z[17].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/014d57[18].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's Open Library ID is recorded as OL2636674W[19].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's Open Library ID is recorded as OL2636665W[20].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's Internet Archive ID is recorded as cryingoflot4900thom[21].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's has edition or translation is recorded as The Crying of Lot 49[22].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's has edition or translation is recorded as Q117356110[23].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's narrative location is recorded as California[24].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 4918[25].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's ISFDB title ID is recorded as 15561[26].
  • The Crying of Lot 49's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/The-Crying-of-Lot-49[27].

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Works and Contributions

The Crying of Lot 49 authored Thomas Pynchon[3].

Why It Matters

The Crying of Lot 49 ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (791 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . archive.org. Retrieved . archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . openlibrary.org. Retrieved . openlibrary.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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