Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe · 1958 CE · Novel · Nigerian · Contemporary

Okonkwo, a wrestler and yam farmer of Umuofia, has built his standing on being nothing like his idle father. Exile, and then the arrival of missionaries and a district commissioner, unsettle the world that standing rests on. The empire's story told from the other side.

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Lineage

• responds to ↑ Heart of Darkness
  Joseph Conrad · 1899 CE · Novel
• takes its title from ↑ The Second Coming
  W. B. Yeats · 1919 CE · Poem
• ↓ Half of a Yellow Sun
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Weep Not, Child
  Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o · 1964 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ No Longer at Ease
  Chinua Achebe · 1960 CE · Novel — continues this
• ↓ Arrow of God
  Chinua Achebe · 1964 CE · Novel — companion to this

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• Arrow of God
  Chinua Achebe · 1964 CE · Novel

  65% · 16 shared
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• A Man for All Seasons
  Fred Zinnemann · 1966 CE · Film

  54% · 12 shared
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• The Crucible
  Arthur Miller · 1953 CE · Play

  52% · 13 shared
  TragedyHistoricalPoliticalIndividual vs SocietyContemporaryTragic HeroTragic ReversalFall (Tragedy)Firevs Societyvs SelfTragicRealist
• Weir of Hermiston
  R. L. Stevenson · 1896 CE · Novel

  51% · 12 shared
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• Saint Joan
  George Bernard Shaw · 1923 CE · Play

  48% · 10 shared
  TragedyHistoricalPoliticalIndividual vs SocietyDuty & HonorTragic ReversalFirevs SocietyTragicRealist
• No Longer at Ease
  Chinua Achebe · 1960 CE · Novel

  47% · 13 shared
  NovelTragedyPoliticalIndividual vs SocietyColonialismContemporaryTragic HeroFall (Tragedy)vs Societyvs SelfTragicRealistNigerian