Things Fall Apart: With Connections (Holt McDougal Library, High School with Connections) - Hardcover

Chinua Achebe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030554381 ISBN 13: 9780030554384

Publisher: HOLT MCDOUGAL, 1999

Synopsis

Presents the contemporary African writer's classic novel depicting the destruction of traditional tribal life by the white man, along with a collection of essays by various authors and a biographical sketch of the author.

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Review:

One of the most widely read novels from Nigeria's most famous novelist. Things Fall Apart is a gripping study of the problem of European colonialism in Africa. The story relates the cultural collision that occurs when Christian English missionaries arrive among the Ibos of Nigeria, bringing along their European ways of life and religion. In the novel, the Nigerian Okonkwo recognizes the cultural imperialism of the white men and tries to show his own people how their own society will fall apart if they exchange their own cultural core for that of the English.

From the Publisher:

This is Chinua Achebe's classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe here shows that he is "gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent." -- Nadine Gordimer

About this edition

• Publisher: HOLT MCDOUGAL
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0030554381
• ISBN 13: 9780030554384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256