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Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria, and is a graduate of University College, Ibadan.
His early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966, when he left his post as Director of External Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to the Biafran War. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and began lecturing widely abroad.
From 1972 to 1975, and again from 1987 to 1988, Mr. Achebe was Professor of English at the... Read More
author bookshelf
The African Trilogy
Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God
Written by Chinua Achebe
Introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Hardcover, 536 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $30.00
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Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God
Written by Chinua Achebe
Introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Hardcover, 536 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $30.00
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Anthills of the Savannah
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $14.00
Using the conflict between city and tribal villages, the ravages of the great African drought and Third World politics as a compelling backdrop, Achebe weaves a potent drama of modern Africa. This novel describes power politics in an imaginary West African country, Kangan, 'where a military coup has brought to prominence... Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $14.00
Using the conflict between city and tribal villages, the ravages of the great African drought and Third World politics as a compelling backdrop, Achebe weaves a potent drama of modern Africa. This novel describes power politics in an imaginary West African country, Kangan, 'where a military coup has brought to prominence... Read more >
Arrow of God
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1989
Price: $14.00
Winner of the New Statesman Award. Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, this novel describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son. Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 1, 1989
Price: $14.00
Winner of the New Statesman Award. Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, this novel describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son. Read more >
Collected Poems
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $12.95
In this moving and powerful collection of poetry, acclaimed African writer Chinua Achebe deploys his prodigious literary gifts to produce verse that ranges from an account of the tragedy of Biafra to an appeal to African consciousness, from a gentle mockery of tradition to a recollection of personal relationships. Achebe's poems... Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $12.95
In this moving and powerful collection of poetry, acclaimed African writer Chinua Achebe deploys his prodigious literary gifts to produce verse that ranges from an account of the tragedy of Biafra to an appeal to African consciousness, from a gentle mockery of tradition to a recollection of personal relationships. Achebe's poems... Read more >
Collected Poems
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: eBook, 96 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $12.95
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Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: eBook, 96 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $12.95
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The Education of a British-Protected Child
Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: eBook, 208 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
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Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: eBook, 208 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
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The Education of a British-Protected Child
Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
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, he discusses... Read more >
Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
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, he discusses... Read more >
Girls at War
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 1, 1991
Price: $14.00
Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis. Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 1, 1991
Price: $14.00
Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis. Read more >
Home and Exile
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $11.00
More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, Home and Exile–the great Nigerian novelist’s first book in more than ten years–is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders.
In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks to... Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $11.00
More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, Home and Exile–the great Nigerian novelist’s first book in more than ten years–is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders.
In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks to... Read more >
Hopes and Impediments
Selected Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $14.00
One of 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, overcoming Eurocentrism in our appreciation of works of the imagination... Read more >
Selected Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $14.00
One of 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, overcoming Eurocentrism in our appreciation of works of the imagination... Read more >
A Man of the People
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 19, 1988
Price: $13.00
In A Man of the People, Achebe foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 19, 1988
Price: $13.00
In A Man of the People, Achebe foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds Read more >
No Longer at Ease
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 16, 1994
Price: $12.00
The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him part of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society. Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 16, 1994
Price: $12.00
The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him part of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society. Read more >
Things Fall Apart
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 17, 1995
Price: $16.00
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Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 17, 1995
Price: $16.00
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Things Fall Apart
A Novel
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $11.00
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 story traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives. It provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $11.00
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 story traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives. It provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between... Read more >
