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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5133 Malouf, David. First Things Last. 1980.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5193 Machen, Arthur. Far Off Things. 1922.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7685 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. The Secret Meaning of Things. 1969.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7741 Rexroth, Kenneth. The Signature of All Things. 1949.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8277 Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. 1958.
Things Fall Apart is the debut novel by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. Published in 1958 by Heinemann as part of its iconic African Writers Series, it is a slim novel whose third-person narrative voice tells the deceptively simple, linear story of the rise and fall of one man, Okonkwo, in the early days of British colonialism in Nigeria. Whilst many works of literature are referred to as seminal, Achebe’s Things Fall Apart can claim to be so in the most accurate sense of the word. Its initial success established the African Writers Series “as a major provider of African fiction and poetry in English and in English translation” (Izevbaye 2004: 484). Since its publication, Things Fall Apart has been translated into fifty languages and sold 11 million copies worldwide; it is taught on educational syllabuses across the globe, from high school to postgraduate-level. Most importantly, its popularity has meant that Things Fall Apart has
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8278 Machen, Arthur. Things Near and Far. 1923.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14634 Auster, Paul. In the Country of Last Things. 1988.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16026 Baldwin, James. The Evidence of Things Not Seen. 1985.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=19411 Snow, C. P.. Last Things. 1970.
Last Things (1970) is the eleventh and final novel in C. P. Snow’s “Strangers and Brothers” sequence. Lewis Eliot is the first-person narrator of the whole series, but in this novel he is also the main protagonist, as in Time of Hope (1949), the first novel of the sequence, and Homecomings (1956), the seventh. In the course of Last Things , which runs from September 1964 to July 1968, Sir Lewis Eliot, now a writer and eminent public man, turns sixty; engages with various members of the younger generation; refuses a job as a junior minister in a Labour Government; witnesses the physical and mental decline of his father-in-law, Austin Davidson; dies himself for over three minutes, long enough to confirm his atheism and enhance his enjoyment of existence; attends a memorial service at his old Cambridge college for his oldest friend, Francis Getliffe; and sees his only son, Charles, embark on a potentially life-threatening journey. The tit
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=19934 Lonsdale, Frederick. The Way Things Go. 1950.
