Chinua Achebe - Works

Works

Novels

  • Things Fall Apart (1958)
  • No Longer at Ease (1960)
  • Arrow of God (1964)
  • A Man of the People (1966)
  • Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

Short Stories

  • Marriage Is A Private Affair (1952)
  • Dead Men's Path (1953)
  • The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories (1953)
  • Civil Peace (1971)
  • Girls at War and Other Stories (including "Vengeful Creditor") (1973)
  • African Short Stories (editor, with C.L. Innes) (1985)
  • Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (editor, with C.L. Innes) (1992)
  • The Voter

Poetry

  • Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems (1971) (published in the US as Christmas at Biafra, and Other Poems, 1973)
  • Don't let him die: An anthology of memorial poems for Christopher Okigbo (editor, with Dubem Okafor) (1978)
  • Another Africa (1998)
  • Collected Poems Carcanet Press (2005)
  • Refugee Mother And Child
  • Vultures

Essays, Criticism, Non-Fiction and Political Commentary

  • The Novelist as Teacher (1965) - also in Hopes and Impediments
  • An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" (1975) - also in Hopes and Impediments
  • Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975)
  • The Trouble With Nigeria (1984)
  • Hopes and Impediments (1988)
  • Home and Exile (2000)
  • Education of a British protected Child (6 October 2009)
  • There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra, (11 October 2012 )

Children's Books

  • Chike and the River (1966)
  • How the Leopard Got His Claws (with John Iroaganachi) (1972)
  • The Flute (1975)
  • The Drum (1978)

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