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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
*Note: This bibliography features the major literary works and collections of plays, poems, and essays of the 1940s Umuahian writers. Edited collections and non-fiction have been excluded. References to more exhaustive bibliographies are given for the most prolific writers.
CHINUA ACHEBE (Niger House, Class of 1944)
Novels
Things Fall Apart (London: William Heinemann, 1958; New York: Astor Honor, 1959; London: Heinemann Educational Books (AWS1), 1962).
No Longer at Ease (London: William Heinemann, 1960; New York: Obolensky, 1961; London: Heinemann Educational Books (AWS3), 1963).
Arrow of God (London: William Heinemann, 1964; New York: John Day, 1967; London: Heinemann Educational Books (AWS16), 1965; revised edition, London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1974).
A Man of the People (London: William Heinemann, 1966; New York: John Day, 1966; London: Heinemann Educational Books (AWS31), 1966).
Anthills of the Savannah (London: William Heinemann, 1987; New York: Doublesday, 1988).
Collected Short Stories
The Sacrificial Egg and Other Short Stories (Onitsha: Etudo, 1962).
Girls at War and Other Stories (London: Heinemann Educational Books (AWS 100), 1972); Garden City NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1973). (Revised versions of the stories in The Sacrificial Egg and Other Short Stories)
Children's Literature
Chike and the River (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966).
How the Leopard Got His Claws (with John Irogonachi; featuring a poem by Christopher Okigbo), Enugu: Nwamifie, 1972; New York: The Third Press, 1973)
The Drum (Enugu: Fourth Dimension, 1977)
The Flute (Enugu: Fourth Dimension, 1977)
Collected Poems
Beware, Soul Brother and Other Poems (Enugu: Nwankwo-Ifejika, 1971; revised and enlarged edition, London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1972; Reprinted as Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems, Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1975).
Essays
Morning Yet on Creation Day. Essays (London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1975; enlarged and revised edition, Garden City NY: Ancor/Doubleday, 1975).
Hopes and Impediments. Selected Essays, 1965–87 (London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1988).
Home and Exile (NY: Anchor Books 2001; Edinburgh: Canongate 2003).
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