Things fall apart /
Achebe, Chinua.
Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe. - Expanded ed. with notes. - Oxford ; Portsmouth, N.H., USA : Heinemann Educational, c1996. - lviii, 148 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - African writers series Classics in context . - Classics in context (Oxford, England) African writers series. .
Chinua Achebe: A Biographical Note -- Chinua Achebe and the Invention of African Literature / Igbo Culture and History / Principal Characters in the Novel -- Glossary of Words and Phrases Used in the Text -- Things Fall Apart / Simon Gikandi -- Don Ohadike -- Chinua Achebe.
Chinua Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people's lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet, as in classic tragedy, Okonkwo's downfall results from his own character as well as from external forces.
0435905252
Igbo (African people)--Fiction.
Men--Nigeria--Fiction.
Nigeria--Race relations--Fiction.
823 / ACT 1996
Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe. - Expanded ed. with notes. - Oxford ; Portsmouth, N.H., USA : Heinemann Educational, c1996. - lviii, 148 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - African writers series Classics in context . - Classics in context (Oxford, England) African writers series. .
Chinua Achebe: A Biographical Note -- Chinua Achebe and the Invention of African Literature / Igbo Culture and History / Principal Characters in the Novel -- Glossary of Words and Phrases Used in the Text -- Things Fall Apart / Simon Gikandi -- Don Ohadike -- Chinua Achebe.
Chinua Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people's lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet, as in classic tragedy, Okonkwo's downfall results from his own character as well as from external forces.
0435905252
Igbo (African people)--Fiction.
Men--Nigeria--Fiction.
Nigeria--Race relations--Fiction.
823 / ACT 1996