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THINGS F ALL APART

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ALSO BY CHINUA ACHEBE

Fiction Anthills of the Savannah

Arrow of God Girls at War and Other Stories

A Man of the People No Longer at Ease

Nonfiction Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays

The Trouble With Nigeria Poetry

Beware Soul Brother

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THINGS FALL APART

CHINUA ACHEBE

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AN ANCHOR BOOK PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. 1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036

ANCHOR BOOKS, DOUBLEDAY, and the portrayal of an anchor are trademarks of Doubleday, a division of

Bantam Doubleday Dell- Publishing Group, Inc. This Anchor Books edition is published by arrangement with Reed Consumer Books. The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission from Aigboje Higo and Heinemann Educational Books,

Ltd., to reproduce the Glossary on page 211,

Book design by Susan Yuran

Library of Congress Cataloging-in -Publication Data Achebe, Chinua.

Things fall apart / by Chinua Achebe. - Ist Anchor Books ed. p. cm.

1. Nigeria-Race relations-Fiction. 2. Igbo (African people) Fiction. 3. Men-Nigeria-Fiction. 1. Title. PR9387.9.A3T5 1994 823-dc2O 94-13429CIP ISBN 0-385-47454-7 Copyright @ 1959 by Chinua Achebe

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions, including the right to reproduce this book or portions

thereof in any form.

Printed in the United States of America First Anchor Books Edition; October 1994

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer

Things fall apart the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

-W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"

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