'(The writer) in whose company the prison walls fell down' - Nelson Mandela. After a long silence Achebe published in 1987 what many see as his greatest work - an acrid...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Achebe Chinua
ISBN:9780141191560
Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly under threat – from his rivals in the tribe...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Achebe Chinua
ISBN:9781846142598
Chinua Achebe is one of the towering figures in world literature, whose writing forged new ways of expression and overturned perceptions of Africa permanently. This unprecedented volume of autobiographical essays...more details Format:Hardback Pages:208
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Achebe Chinua
ISBN:9780141043616
'His is a voice that roars . . . one of the world's most important thinkers and writers' Bernardine Evaristo, Independent
This acclaimed volume of autobiographical essays is one of Chinua Achebe's most powerful and personal works to date...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
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Achebe Chinua
ISBN:9781841953854
Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice, bringing to life not only Africa's troubled encounters with Europe but also the dark side of contemporary African political life. Now...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Achebe Chinua
ISBN:9780141192581
Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also included is The Trouble with Nigeria...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:112
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Achebe Chinua
ISBN:9780141186894
Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, MP, left his job as a teacher to become a politician. As Minister for Culture, he is "a man of the people". At first...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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Achebe Chinua
ISBN:9780141191553
Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders and corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes that are offered to him...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Achebe Chinua
ISBN:9780143026235
This is the classic collection of Chinua Achebe's short fiction, written over twenty years and drawn from literary journals and magazines.
The earliest...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:120
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Achebe Chinua
ISBN:9780141023380
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Achebe Chinua
ISBN:9780141186887
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Achebe Chinua Et Al
ISBN:9780451528407
This collection of multi-cultural fiction includes short stories from around the globe by authors Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chen Rong, Yukio Mishima...more details Format:Paperback Pages:480
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Chinua Achebe;C L Annes C LInnes
ISBN:9780435905361
"This collection of 20 stories forms an invaluable introductionto the wealth of short fiction currently being written in Africa...Highlyrecommended for both African and short story collections" - Library Journal
Chinua Achebe has joined with C.L. Innes...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Achebe Chinua
ISBN:9781841593272
Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English, the writer who 'opened the magic casements of African fiction' for an international readership. Following the 50th anniversary of the publication of his ground-breaking Things Fall Apart...more details Format:Hardback Pages:513
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780852553459
A number of distinguished Africans, representing a broad range of disciplines ask what will the continent look like in 2057, a century on from independence in Ghana and Sudan? They set out to provide some 'credible alternative visions'...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780307473868
"The more Chike saw the ferry-boats the more he wanted to make the trip to Asaba. But where would he get the money? He did not know. Still...more details Format:Paperback Pages:88
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780606231671
After an 11-year-old Nigerian boy leaves his small village to live with his uncle in the city, he is exposed to a range of new experiences and becomes fascinated with crossing the Niger River on a ferry boat....more details Pages:96
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Chinua Achebe;Harold Bloom
ISBN:9780791063361
-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature -- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism -- Contains critical biographies...more details Format:Library Binding
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9781857548433
Chinua Achebe's poetic output is gathered together in this volume by arguably the most influential African writer of the 20th century....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:144
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Chinua Achebe;Bernth Lindfors
ISBN:9780878059997
Chinua Achebe's books are being read throughout the English-speaking world. They have been translated into more than fifty languages. His publishers estimate that more than eight million copies of his first novel Things Fall Apart (1958) have been sold. As a consequence...more details Format:Paperback Pages:199
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780385414791
One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For Achebe...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780763648053
From Chinua Achebe, father of modern African literature, comes a vivid fable about power and freedom. In the beginning, all the animals lived as friends. Their king...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:36
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9781607961529
Things Fall Apart, tells of a troubled young African whose formal education separates him from his roots and makes him part of a corrupt ruling elite he despises....more details Format:Paperback Pages:202
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780307592705
Here, collected for the first time in Everyman's Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Chinua Achebe's "African Trilogy...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:513
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Nadezda Obradovic;Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780385722407
@lt;b@gt;The Anchor Book of Modern African Stories@lt;/b@gt; showcases the most innovative writing to arise from the continent. From internationally recognized authors such as Nigeria's Ben Okri...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780307272553
From the celebrated author of "Things Fall Apart" and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays--his first new book in more than twenty years. Chinua Achebe's characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780307473677
From the celebrated author of "Things Fall Apart" and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays--his first new book in more than twenty years. Chinua Achebe's characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface...more details Format:Paperback Pages:172
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780435906986
"The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership," concludes internationally acclaimed writer Chinua Achebe. In this book Achebe broke his silence about the 1983 Nigerian elections...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9789781561474
The eminent African novelist and critic, here addresses Nigeria's problems, aiming to challenge the resignation of Nigerians and inspire them to reject old habits which inhibit Nigeria from becoming a modern and attractive country. In this famous book now reprinted...more details Format:Paperback Pages:100
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Sara Talis O'Brien;Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780878912339
MAXnotes. . . - offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature - present material in an interesting, lively fashion - are written...more details Format:Paperback Pages:152
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780435905255
This expanded edition of Chinua Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in an Igbo village. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society...more details Format:Paperback Pages:206
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Chinua Achebe;Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame AnthonyAppiah
ISBN:9780679446231
THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:272
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780808592778
Achebe's masterpiece tells the story of Okonkwo, strongman of an Ibo village in Nigeria, as he witnesses the destruction of his culture and the loss of his own place within it....more details Pages:224
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9780385474542
"Things Fall Apart" tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
"Things Fall Apart" tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society...more details
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Chinua Achebe;Francis Abiola Irele
ISBN:9780393932195
Written during a period of nationalist assertion and an emerging modern culture in Africa, Things Fall Apart's influence quickly spread from Nigeria throughout Africa and beyond. In its fifty years...more details Format:Paperback Pages:597
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9781400143771
From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and the winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays---his first new book in more than twenty years....more details Format:CD
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9781400113774
From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and the winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays---his first new book in more than twenty years....more details Format:CD
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Chinua Achebe
ISBN:9781400163779
From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and the winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays---his first new book in more than twenty years....more details Format:CD
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Chinua Achebe;Peter Francis James
ISBN:9781402573729
With over eight million copies in print, Chinua Achebe's work is perhaps the best-known novel in African literature. No other book so powerfully illuminates the African experience. Driven by ambition...more details Format:CD