The Man Who Would Be King

novella by Rudyard Kipling
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The Man Who Would Be King
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The Man Who Would Be King

Summary

The Man Who Would Be King is a written work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (330 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Man Who Would Be King authored Rudyard Kipling[3].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's image is recorded as The Phantom Rickshaw & Other Eerie Tales.jpg[4].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's instance of is recorded as written work[5].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's genre is recorded as adventure fiction[6].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's Commons category is recorded as The Man Who Would Be King[7].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's publication date is recorded as +1888-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0jjff[10].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's Open Library ID is recorded as OL20112W[11].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's has edition or translation is recorded as O człowieku, który chciał być królem[12].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's has edition or translation is recorded as The Man Who Would Be King[13].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's has edition or translation is recorded as L’Homme qui voulut être roi[14].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/The-Man-Who-Would-Be-King-short-story-by-Kipling[15].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's BBC Things ID is recorded as 33df7775-53a2-4e0f-8fe3-51f1a032580e[16].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's copyright status is recorded as public domain[17].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's copyright status is recorded as public domain[18].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's form of creative work is recorded as novella[19].
  • The Man Who Would Be King's Penguin Random House work ID is recorded as 308549[20].

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Designation and Status

The Man Who Would Be King's instance of is recorded as written work[5].

Why It Matters

The Man Who Would Be King ranks in the top 4% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (330 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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