Chinua Achebe (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition)

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The short stories of Chinua Achebe, written over a period of twenty years, were first published in England by Heinemann under the title Girls at War (1972), though most of them had already appeared in various periodicals and in a Nigerian publication, The Sacrificial Egg and Other Short Stories (1962). Achebe’s poems, most of them written during the Biafran crisis (1967-1970), came out soon after the war as Beware: Soul Brother and Other Poems (1971), and a year later in an enlarged edition. Doubleday then published this Heinemann...

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