Book

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

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0679446230
ISBN: 9780679446231
Physical Description: xxi, 181 pages ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New York : Knopf : 1992.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages xviii-xix).
Formatted Contents Note:	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).
Target Audience Note:	890L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.2 8 79634.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Also issued online.