The Fable of the Bees

1705 essay by Bernard Mandeville
VisualArtwork literary_work Q1171104
The Fable of the Bees
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The Fable of the Bees

Summary

The Fable of the Bees is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (153 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Fable of the Bees authored Bernard Mandeville[3].
  • The Fable of the Bees's image is recorded as La favola delle api.jpg[4].
  • The Fable of the Bees's instance of is recorded as literary work[5].
  • The Fable of the Bees's genre is recorded as essay[6].
  • The Fable of the Bees's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no2017165590[7].
  • The Fable of the Bees's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12037926x[8].
  • The Fable of the Bees's Commons category is recorded as The Fable of the Bees[9].
  • The Fable of the Bees's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • The Fable of the Bees's publication date is recorded as +1705-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • The Fable of the Bees's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fd2jr[12].
  • The Fable of the Bees's main subject is recorded as politician[13].
  • The Fable of the Bees's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[14].
  • The Fable of the Bees's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/The-Fable-of-the-Bees[15].
  • The Fable of the Bees's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Fable of the Bees'}[16].
  • The Fable of the Bees's BBC Things ID is recorded as 7ed8a713-2eb4-47f7-b522-b5fc029398ca[17].
  • The Fable of the Bees's different from is recorded as Greed is good[18].
  • The Fable of the Bees's Project Gutenberg ebook ID is recorded as 57260[19].
  • The Fable of the Bees's copyright status is recorded as public domain[20].
  • The Fable of the Bees's copyright status is recorded as public domain[21].
  • The Fable of the Bees's Treccani's Dizionario di Filosofia ID is recorded as favola-delle-api-la[22].

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Works and Contributions

The Fable of the Bees authored Bernard Mandeville[3].

Why It Matters

The Fable of the Bees ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (153 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source The Nuttall Encyclopædia
    Publication date +1705-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Aliases
    Copyright status public domain, public domain
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ Added [[wikipedia:ur:دی فیبل آف دی بیز]]"
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