THINGS FALL APART - Multiworld India

222 Pages·2007·0.42 MB·English

THINGS FALL APART
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ALSO BY CHINUA ACHEBE

Fiction

Anthills of the Savannah
Arrow of God
Girls at War and Other Stories
A Man of the People
No Longer at Ease

Nonfiction

Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays
The Trouble With Nigeria

Poetry

Beware Soul Brother
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C
HINUA
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CHEBE

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in -Publication Data
Achebe, Chinua.
Things fall apart / by Chinua Achebe. - Ist Anchor Books ed.
p. cm.
1. Nigeria-Race relations-Fiction. 2. Igbo (African people)
Fiction. 3. Men-Nigeria-Fiction. 1. Title.
PR9387.9.A3T5 1994
823-dc2O
94-13429CIP
ISBN 0-385-47454-7
Copyright @ 1959 by Chinua Achebe

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Printed in the United States of America
First Anchor Books Edition; October 1994
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

-W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"

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