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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Everyman's library ; 135Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992.Description: xxi, 181 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0679446230
  • 9780679446231
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR9387.9.A3 T5 1992b
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
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).
Summary: [This book is] a simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger ... Uniquely ... African, at the same time it reveals [the author's] ... awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.-Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PR9387.9.A3T5 1992 1 Available 33710001254916

Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii-xix).

[This book is] a simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger ... Uniquely ... African, at the same time it reveals [the author's] ... awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.-Back cover.

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).