| Description |
1 online resource (209 pages) |
| 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. |
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Things Fall Apart--the first volume of Chinua Achebe's masterpiece The African Trilogy--tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Igbo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo's fall from grace in his world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of that world when European missionaries arrive in his village. Things Fall Apart forms one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments we have to the modern African experience as seen from within. Achebe does not merely capture life in an African village before the arrival of colonialism, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our own. |
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890 Lexile. |
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890L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.2 8 79634 |
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Accelerated Reader UG 6.2 8 79634 |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : McDowell, Obolensky, [1959]. |
| Summary |
The contemporary African writer's classic novel depicting the destruction of traditional tribal life by the white man. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Igbo (African people) -- Fiction.
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British -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
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Men -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
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Race relations -- Fiction.
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British. |
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Igbo (African people) |
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Men. |
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Race relations. |
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Nigeria -- Fiction.
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Nigeria. |
| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart New York : Anchor Books, 1994 0385474547 (DLC) 94013429 (OCoLC)30111784 |
| ISBN |
9780307743855 : $36.00 |
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0307743853 : $36.00 |
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