{"first_publish_date": "1981", "key": "/works/OL1365156W", "title": "The Way of the World", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL139838A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "lc_classifications": ["PR3364", "PR3364 .W3 1700a"], "dewey_number": ["822.46", "822/.4"], "subjects": ["British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)", "English drama", "Adultery", "Drama", "Extortion", "Fiction", "Social life and customs", "Upper class", "Man-woman relationships", "English drama (Comedy)", "English fiction"], "covers": [451937, 573698, 755958, 9178634, 11099789, 12557108, 12557112], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "My Lord,-Whether the world will arraign me of vanity or not, that I have presumed to dedicate this comedy to your lordship, I am yet in doubt; though, it may be, it is some degree of vanity even to doubt of it."}, "subject_places": ["England", "London", "London (England)"], "subject_people": ["A. R Middleton Todd", "Malcolm C. Salaman (1855-1940)"], "subject_times": ["17th century", "Restoration, 1660-1700"], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T21:13:33.408483"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-27T17:39:09.943851"}}