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The Things They Carried

meta-fictional Vietnam War memoir by American author Tim O'Brien
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The Things They Carried

Summary

The Things They Carried is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (783 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Things They Carried authored Tim O'Brien[3].
  • The Things They Carried's image is recorded as The Things They Carried.jpg[4].
  • The Things They Carried's instance of is recorded as literary work[5].
  • The Things They Carried's publisher is recorded as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt[6].
  • The Things They Carried's genre is recorded as historical fiction[7].
  • The Things They Carried's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • The Things They Carried's country of origin is recorded as United States[9].
  • The Things They Carried's publication date is recorded as +1990-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • The Things They Carried's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0351qj[11].
  • The Things They Carried's Open Library ID is recorded as OL15080899W[12].
  • The Things They Carried's has edition or translation is recorded as The Things They Carried[13].
  • The Things They Carried's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/The-Things-They-Carried[14].
  • The Things They Carried's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Things They Carried'}[15].
  • The Things They Carried's Quora topic ID is recorded as The-Things-They-Carried-1990-book[16].
  • The Things They Carried's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Book", "TheThingsTheyCarried"][17].
  • The Things They Carried's OCLC work ID is recorded as 10716664[18].
  • The Things They Carried's form of creative work is recorded as short story collection[19].
  • The Things They Carried's Goodreads work ID is recorded as 1235619[20].

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Works and Contributions

The Things They Carried authored Tim O'Brien[3].

Why It Matters

The Things They Carried ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (783 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21]

Related Entities

literary work United States

References

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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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . archive.org. Retrieved . archive.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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 28d ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Language of work or name → English
    Publisher → Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    Genre → —
    Country of origin → United States
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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