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Achebe, Chinua, author.

Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe ; with an introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

New York : Distributed by Random House, Inc.

xxi, 181 pages ; 22 cm.

"Things Fall Apart tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a 'strong man' of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between the individual and society. The second story, which is as modern as the first is ancient ... concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries"--Publisher description.

Everyman's library ; 135

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)

Igbo (African people) -- Fiction.

British -- Nigeria -- Fiction.

Men -- Nigeria -- Fiction.

Race relations -- Fiction.

Nigeria -- Fiction.

Historical fiction.

"First published by William Heinemann Ltd., 1958"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xviii-xix).

Also issued online.

The Historical and Cultural Context of Things Fall Apart -- Technique and Theme in Things Fall Apart -- Characters in Things Fall Apart -- Places in Things Fall Apart -- Map of Africa -- Map of Nigeria -- Images of Igbo Life -- Plot Analysis of Things Fall Apart -- "Going Home Was a Sad Awakening," Marjorie Coeyman, The Christian Science Monitor (news article) -- "An African Voice," interview with Chinua Achebe by Katie Bacon, Atlantic Unbound (interview) -- "The Second Coming," William Butler Yeats (poem) -- "Lament of the Sacred Python," Chinua Achebe (poem) -- from Kehinde, Buchi Emecheta (novel excerpt) -- "Heaven Is Not Closed," Bessie Head (short story) -- "Should My Tribal Past Shape Delia's Future?," Dympna Ugwu-Oju, Newsweek (personal essay).

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