Death and the King's Horseman

Contributor(s): Soyinka, Wole (Author)

ISBN: 9780393322996

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Binding Types:

Paperback

$14.95

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$27.90 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$26.70 (100+ copies: $25.95)

List/retail price:

$14.95

Pub Date: April 17, 2002

Dewey: 822

LCCN: 75042079

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Glossary, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.25" H x 8.28" L x 5.56" W ( 0.26 lbs) 80 pages

BISAC Categories:

Drama | African | European | English Irish Scottish Welsh

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000143049 ( Death and the King's Horseman)

Reading level: 4.80

Interest level: UG

Point value: 3.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture.

Brief description: Wole Soyinka, one of Africa's foremost writers, won the Nobel Prize in 1986 and is the author of Death and the King's Horseman, among other works.

Review Quotes: ?Death and the King's Horseman blends European literary theater with total-theater traditions from the Yoruba tribe in Southwest Nigeria. Through poetry, chorus, politics, and storytelling, Soyinka both entertains and asks subtle questions about mass psychology, individual psychology, and universal human struggles of the will. "

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