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Title: Things Fall Apart : A Novel by CHINUA ACHEBE ISBN: 0-385-47454-7 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (355 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A "classic" that really is
Comment: A thousand people have said this before me, but THINGS FALL APART is truly a wonderful piece of fiction. From the first pages, you are immersed in a beautiful, strange (to me, anyway), fascinating culture that comes through in every description, in the words that come from the character's mouths, in the conflicts between individuals and the clash of cultures, and especially in Achebe's direct, articulate, sparesely beautiful style.
As other reviewers have noted, it's usually not the best when you're being forced to read it for a class. But look at it this way: most books aren't. If you're in that situation, try to get past the coercion factor and the problem of grades, and read this book for yourself. It's a "classic" -- that's why they're making you read it -- and no one hates "classics" more than I, but THINGS FALL APART is much, much more than a "classic" work of fiction. It is a tragedy, deeply felt, that draws an unerring portrait of human nature and especially human conflict. It is a good story, and one beautifully told. It is an education you owe to yourself. And if that's still not enough: it's short.
Rating: 5
Summary: A World Classic
Comment: In this compact novel, Chinua Achebe has packed a story on the level of Greek tragedy, of the tipping point in African tribal life when the white man comes, from the perspective of Okonkwo, a man for whom tribal life has worked seamlessly. Achebe devotes the extended first part of the book to episodic accounts of village life, portraying a very complex agrarian culture with remarkably integrated economic, social, religious and political systems. Okonkwo is the ambitious son of an unambitious man. He overcame his inauspicious birthright and lives prosperously with three wives and several children. Their daily life is rendered vividly in Achebe's rhythmic, economic style. Misfortune befalls Okonkwo in a moment's accident at the end of part one, but tribal custom has a way of taking care of him, sending him and his family in exile to his mother's village for seven years. He spends the years anxiously awaiting the time to return to the life he enjoyed, ignoring the harbingers of change that arrive in the person of the first missionary. When he at last returns to the life he left behind, it is no what he had remembered, understood and cherished.
For this contemporary reader, THINGS FALL APART served as a fine contemplation of character and conflict, of an international historical phenomenon from the individual's experience, of the problems of change and chance. It also offered a fresh reading of Yeat's poem, "The Second Coming," from which the title is taken. I regret this was not assigned in my education; I hope educators are encouraging high school and college students to read it today. It's the type of book that makes you love literature and reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: A masterpiece
Comment: Chinua Achebe delivered the goods with this one. This ought to be read by everyone. Highly recommended
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Title: Things Fall Apart (Cliffs Notes) by John Chua, Suzanne Pavlos ISBN: 0764586475 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ISBN: 0486264645 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe ISBN: 0385474555 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 16 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ISBN: 0449213943 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Night by Elie Wiesel, Stella Rodway, Francois Mauriac ISBN: 0553272535 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1982 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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