Things Fall Apart is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958. It depicts pre-colonial life in the southeastern part of Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans during the late 19th century. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English, and one of …
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Things Fall Apart is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958. It depicts pre-colonial life in the southeastern part of Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans during the late 19th century. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English, and one of the first to receive global critical acclaim. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and is widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world. The novel was first published in the UK in 1962 by William Heinemann Ltd, and became the first work published in Heinemann's African Writers Series.
The novel follows the life of Okonkwo, an Igbo ("Ibo" in the novel) man and local wrestling champion in the fictional Nigerian clan of Umuofia. The work is split into three parts, with the first describing his family, personal history, and the customs and society of the Igbo, and the second and third sections introducing the influence of European colonialism and Christian missionaries on Okonkwo, his family, and the wider Igbo community.
Things Fall Apart was followed by a sequel, No Longer at Ease (1960), originally written as the second part of a larger work along with Arrow of God (1964). Achebe states that his two later novels A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987), while not featuring Okonkwo's descendants, are spiritual successors to the previous novels in chronicling African history.
Contained in: African Trilogy
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Things Fall Apart
audio cd
lingua English
Pubblicato da Recorded Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4025-7372-9ISBN copiato!
Things fall apart
181, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1992 da Knopf, Distributed by Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-679-41714-9ISBN copiato!
Things Fall Apart
lingua English
Pubblicato da Fawcett.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-449-24142-4ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 7602815
Things Fall Apart
Brossura, 187 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1966 da Heinemann Educaitonal Books.
Things Fall Apart
216, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1959 da Astor-Honor.
- Numero OCLC:
- 27065671
Things Fall Apart (Reader's Companion)
Brossura
lingua English
Pubblicato da Anchor Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-385-48938-6ISBN copiato!
Things fall apart
219, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2008 da Hampton-Brown.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7362-3184-8ISBN copiato!
Todo se desmorona
213, pagine
lingua Spanish
Pubblicato il 1997 da Ediciones del Bronce.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-8300-306-0ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 38126617
Things fall apart
95, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1992 da Heinemann.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-435-27246-3ISBN copiato!
Things fall apart
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2007 da Everbind Anthologies.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-9729765-3-4ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 86110072
Things Fall Apart (African Writers)
158, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato da Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-435-90526-2ISBN copiato!
Things fall apart
185, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1958 da Heinemann.
- Numero OCLC:
- 1633388
Things fall apart
192, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1969 da Fawcett Publications.
- Numero OCLC:
- 2684728
Things fall apart
Brossura, 597 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2008 da W. W. Norton & Co..
- ISBN:
- 978-0-393-93219-5ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 181139863
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