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ISBN: 9780141186887 - Things Fall Apart Bestseller Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe

ISBN10: 0141186887  ISBN13: 9780141186887
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: [New ed.]
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2001
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidently kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find... More

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ISBN: 9780141043616 - The Education of a British-protected Child The Education of a British-protected Child
Chinua Achebe

ISBN10: 014104361X  ISBN13: 9780141043616
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Jan 2011
Gives us a portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', interrogating both the author's happy memories of reading English adventure stories in secondary school and also the harsher truths of colonial rule. More

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ISBN: 9780141192581 - An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria
Chinua Achebe

ISBN10: 0141192585  ISBN13: 9780141192581
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Aug 2010
Asserts the author'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. This title includes "The Trouble with Nigeria"... More

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ISBN: 9780141186900 - Anthills of the Savannah Anthills of the Savannah
Chinua Achebe

ISBN10: 0141186909  ISBN13: 9780141186900
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2001
Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are three like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppression and intimidation they are simply trying to live and... More

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ISBN: 9780141023380 - Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe

ISBN10: 0141023384  ISBN13: 9780141023380
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Jan 2006
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan... More

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ISBN: 9781841593272 - The African Trilogy The African Trilogy
Chinua Achebe

ISBN10: 1841593273  ISBN13: 9781841593272
Publisher: Everyman Everyman's Library
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 26 Mar 2010
Includes "Things Fall Apart", "No Longer at Ease", and "Arrow of God". In "Things Fall Apart" the individual tragedy of Okonkwo, 'strong man' and tribal elder in the Nigeria of the 1890s is intertwined with the transformation of traditional Igbo... More

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ISBN: 9780141191553 - No Longer at Ease No Longer at Ease
Chinua Achebe

ISBN10: 0141191554  ISBN13: 9780141191553
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Jan 2010
Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who 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 corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes offered to him... More

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ISBN: 9780435905385 - Anthills of the Savannah Anthills of the Savannah
Chinua Achebe

ISBN10: 0435905384  ISBN13: 9780435905385
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited Heinemann
Edition: 1st New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Oct 1988
This portrait of contemporary Africa is a fusion of myth, legend and modern styles. More

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ISBN: 9780435121624 - Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe

ISBN10: 0435121626  ISBN13: 9780435121624
Publisher: Pearson Education, Oxford Heinemann
Edition: 1st New edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 22 Nov 1971
One of a series of fiction titles for schools. Okonkwo, a man of the Ibo tribe in Nigeria at the end of the last century, is a person of substance, character and promise, but he and his people are doomed to be destroyed - both from within the... More

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ISBN: 9780141186894 - A Man of the People A Man of the People
Chinua Achebe

ISBN10: 0141186895  ISBN13: 9780141186894
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: Re-issue ed
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2001
Chief the Honourable M. A. Nanga, MP, jacked in his job as a teacher to become a politician. As Minister for Culture he is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, a roguish opportunist who can talk his way in and out of anything. More