Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart has made the list of 12 “Greatest Books Ever Written” put together by Encyclopedia Britannica.
Encyclopedia Britannica says the book which now exists in 57 translations across the world, is one of the greatest ever written novels on the website of Encyclopedia Britannica in recent times.
Things Fall Apart, was the first in an African trilogy that set about establishing the validity of life in tribal Nigeria in the late 19th century, before the colonialism of Christian missionaries arrived.
Other literary works that made the list include; “Anna Karenina,” by Leo Tolstoy, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee, “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “One Hundred Years of Solitu by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Others are “A Passage to India,” by E.M. Forster, “Invisible Man,” by Ralph Ellison, “Don Quixote,” by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “Beloved,” by Toni Morrison, “Mrs. Dalloway,” by Virginia Woolf, “Jane Eyre,” by Charlotte Bronte and “The Color Purple,” by Alice Walker.
Recall that fans of the legendary writer, Prof. Chinua Achebe, celebrated the 60th anniversary of his classical novel, Things Fall Apart back in January 2018
Ten years ago, many literary folk celebrated the book when it clocked 50, at a time the legend was still alive. Amazingly, after his demise,the book is still generating fervour across the world.