To Build a Fire

short story by Jack London
VisualArtwork literary_work Q515819
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To Build a Fire

Summary

To Build a Fire is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (264 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • To Build a Fire authored Jack London[3].
  • To Build a Fire's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • To Build a Fire's genre is recorded as adventure fiction[5].
  • To Build a Fire's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 176080278[6].
  • To Build a Fire's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no2008158154[7].
  • To Build a Fire's language of work or name is recorded as American English[8].
  • To Build a Fire's Libraries Australia ID is recorded as 35311209[9].
  • To Build a Fire's country of origin is recorded as United States[10].
  • To Build a Fire's publication date is recorded as +1902-05-29T00:00:00Z[11].
  • To Build a Fire's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0d_6l8[12].
  • To Build a Fire's Open Library ID is recorded as OL144778W[13].
  • To Build a Fire's has edition or translation is recorded as To build a Fire[14].
  • To Build a Fire's narrative location is recorded as Yukon[15].
  • To Build a Fire's narrative location is recorded as Canada[16].
  • To Build a Fire's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 15042150[17].
  • To Build a Fire's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/To-Build-a-Fire[18].
  • To Build a Fire's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'To Build a Fire'}[19].
  • To Build a Fire's BBC Things ID is recorded as fca3ccdb-5b58-4aa1-a4af-8a0945237713[20].
  • To Build a Fire's Babelio work ID is recorded as 928113[21].
  • To Build a Fire's derivative work is recorded as To Build a Fire[22].
  • To Build a Fire's copyright status is recorded as public domain[23].
  • To Build a Fire's copyright status is recorded as public domain[24].
  • To Build a Fire's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Literature/ToBuildAFire[25].
  • To Build a Fire's FantLab work ID is recorded as 182747[26].
  • To Build a Fire's FantLab work ID is recorded as 183819[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

To Build a Fire authored Jack London[3].

Why It Matters

To Build a Fire ranks in the top 3% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (264 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  7. [9] . Virtual International Authority File. wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
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  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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