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The Tree

short story by H. P. Lovecraft
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The Tree

Summary

The Tree is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Tree authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].
  • The Tree's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • The Tree's genre is horror literature[5].
  • The Tree's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].
  • The Tree's country of origin is recorded as United States[7].
  • The Tree was published on 1921[8].
  • The Tree's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Tree'}[9].
  • The Tree's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'On a verdant slope of Mount Maenalus, in Arcadia, there stands an olive grove about the ruins of a villa.'}[10].
  • The Tree's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'But the olive grove still stands, as does the tree growing out of the tomb of Kalos, and the old bee-keeper told me that sometimes the boughs whisper to one another in the night wind, saying over and over again. "Oida! Oida!—I know! I know!"'}[11].
  • The Tree's copyright status is recorded as public domain[12].
  • The Tree's copyright status is recorded as public domain[13].
  • The Tree's epigraph is recorded as {'lang': 'la', 'text': 'Fata viam invenient.'}[14].
  • The Tree's form of creative work is recorded as short story[15].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Prose[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 9f98f694-4bcb-49ce-a838-8d37796226d6[17]

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Authorship and Creation

The Tree authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].

Publication

The Tree was published on 1921[8]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[6]. Its genre is horror literature[5].

Why It Matters

The Tree ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

Related Entities

H. P. Lovecraft literary work public domain United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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