Things Fall Apart, 1958 - Information about the Book
- The title is taken from William Butler Yeats' poem The Second Coming
- Main Characters
- List of characters with correct pronunciation
- Character Analyses: Okonkwo, Unoka, Obierika, Mr. Brown, Reverend James Smith
- Historical Context
- Background Information
- Conflict
- Themes
- Glossary
- Did You Know?
- Since 1958, Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" set a standard of artistic excellence, and more by Douglas Killam
- Anglicanism in Things Fall Apart by Stephen Froehlich, University of Texas
- Reading As A Woman: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart And Feminist Criticism by Linda Strong-Leek, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
- What "things" fall apart in the novel? by Richard Nordquist, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA.
- The Notion of Balance in Things Fall Apart
- Okonkwo and the Storyteller: Death, Accident, and Meaning in Achebe and Benjamin; by Jonathan Greenberg, Montclair State University (pdf 29 pages)
- Chinua Achebe on the Literary Legacy of "Things Fall Apart". PBS; May 28, 2008 - transcript
- "An Evening with Chinua Achebe" with the author reading from Things Fall Apart. Library of Congress; 2008
- Chinua Achebe answers questions. BBC; June 2006
- Analysis of a Paragraph from Chapter 2 by Grover Furr, Montclair State University, 1999 (Real 10:34 - lots of background noise)
- An NPR meeting: Ray Suarez and Abiola Irele, Professor of African, French and Comparative Literature, Ohio State University, discuss Things Fall Apart: NPR, May 30, 1996 (Real 53:00)
- Chinua Achebe discusses his novel and reads from the beginning. BBC World Service (Real 26:27)
- Social Darwinism in Things Fall Apart
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