The Willows

short story by Algernon Blackwood
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The Willows

Summary

The Willows is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (309 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Willows authored Algernon Blackwood[3].
  • The Willows's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • The Willows's genre is recorded as weird fiction[5].
  • The Willows's genre is recorded as horror literature[6].
  • The Willows's language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • The Willows's country of origin is recorded as England[8].
  • The Willows's publication date is recorded as +1907-01-02T00:00:00Z[9].
  • The Willows's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04zwrws[10].
  • The Willows's narrative location is recorded as Austria–Hungary[11].
  • The Willows's narrative location is recorded as Danube[12].
  • The Willows's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 2142353[13].
  • The Willows's ISFDB title ID is recorded as 82287[14].
  • The Willows's published in is recorded as The Listener and Other Stories[15].
  • The Willows's published in is recorded as The Weird[16].
  • The Willows's published in is recorded as The Dark Descent[17].
  • The Willows's published in is recorded as The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1901-1950[18].
  • The Willows's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Willows'}[19].
  • The Willows's title is recorded as {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'Los sauces'}[20].
  • The Willows's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes.'}[21].
  • The Willows's Project Gutenberg ebook ID is recorded as 11438[22].
  • The Willows's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'And when I turned my eyes again from his ghastly face to the river, the current had done its work, and the body had been swept away into mid-stream and was already beyond our reach and almost out of sight, turning over and over on the waves like an otter.'}[23].
  • The Willows's copyright status is recorded as public domain[24].
  • The Willows's form of creative work is recorded as novella[25].

Body

Works and Contributions

The Willows authored Algernon Blackwood[3].

Why It Matters

The Willows ranks in the top 3% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (309 views/month).[2]

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.
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  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . gutenberg.org. gutenberg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . gutenberg.org. gutenberg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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