Things Fall Apart
New York : Knopf, 1992.
Format: Book
Description: xxi, 181 pages ; 22 cm.
[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.
Series: Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; no. 135.
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).
Subjects:
Igbo (African people) -- Fiction.
British -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
Men -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Nigeria -- Fiction.
Igbo (African people) -- Fiction.
British -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
Men -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Nigeria -- Fiction.
Target Audience: 890L
ISBN:
9780385474542
Includes bibliographical references (pages xviii-xix).
Also issued online.
Also issued online.