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  • Full Title: Things Fall Apart
  • Author: Chinua Achebe
  • Time Setting: 1957
  • Publication Date: 1958
  • Genre: Novel / Social and Cultural Tragedy
  • Setting: Igbo villages of pre-colonial Nigeria during the 1890s
  • Climax: Okonkwo kills a British court messenger in rebellion
  • Antagonists: Christian missionaries and British colonial officials, especially Reverend James Smith and the District Commissioner
  • Narrative Point of View: Third-person omniscient narrator who observes both individual and social conflict.