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The Man Who Was Thursday

1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton
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The Man Who Was Thursday

Summary

The Man Who Was Thursday is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (623 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Man Who Was Thursday authored G. K. Chesterton[3].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's image is recorded as Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday.djvu[4].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's instance of is recorded as literary work[5].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's publisher is recorded as J. W. Arrowsmith[6].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's genre is recorded as thriller[7].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[9].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's publication date is recorded as +1908-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025njm[11].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's Open Library ID is recorded as OL76487W[12].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's translator is recorded as Juan Garzia[13].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's has edition or translation is recorded as Q114558869[14].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's has edition or translation is recorded as Q121926314[15].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's has edition or translation is recorded as Q138515531[16].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's has edition or translation is recorded as Q138561939[17].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's narrative location is recorded as London[18].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's ISFDB title ID is recorded as 11969[19].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/The-Man-Who-Was-Thursday[20].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Man Who Was Thursday'}[21].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's BBC Things ID is recorded as 58e445e4-ae3c-4f16-b802-211bc587426e[22].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.'}[23].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's Project Gutenberg ebook ID is recorded as 1695[24].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.'}[25].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's NNL item ID is recorded as 002809632[26].
  • The Man Who Was Thursday's NooSFere book ID is recorded as 5164[27].

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Works and Contributions

The Man Who Was Thursday authored G. K. Chesterton[3].

Why It Matters

The Man Who Was Thursday ranks in the top 3% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (623 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

G. K. Chesterton literary work London public domain United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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