Things Fall Apart

6th February 2008 with 0 Comments

Peter Monaghan in The Chronicle Review looks back at the fate of a first novel:
Since William Heinemann Ltd. first issued it in London, the novel has sold about 11 million copies in some 50 countries and as many languages. (This month Anchor Books will issue a 50th-aniversary edition.) In the United States, in an era [...]

Filed under literature, quotations
Related Tags: , , , , , , ,



About Writing:

No improvement is too small or trivial to be worthwhile. Of a hundred alterations each may seem trifling or pedantic by itself; together they can raise the text to a new level. . . Should the finished text, no matter of what length, arouse even the slightest misgivings, these should be taken inordinately seriously, to a degree out of all proportion to their apparent importance. Theodor Adorno

Save a Blogger from Begging: Buy Books:


chinese jacket

Signed first editions
at special prices.

RSS Feeds

About Subscriptions and Feeds

Subscribe to posts

Subscribe to comments

967 feed subscribers

My Website

Visit my website for news of readings and appearances, reviews of and extracts from my novels, interviews, quotations on writing, revolution, lies, time and dance, art, serial killers, and humour. Read short stories, view author images and much more.

Submit your news

Please continue to let me know about literary-related news. I can't promise to publish everything, but if it grabs my interest . . .

Text Size

If you find the text of this blog too small or too large for easy reading, you can alter the size of the font in your browser's View menu. Alternatively, press the CTRL key and roll the mouse wheel forward or back.

Donations

Via Paypal, using johnbakeronline[at]operamail[dot]com