LITTLE BLACK CLASSICS : ANTIGONE PB

It s a dreadful thing to yield…but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That s dreadful too. The remarkable story of Greek tragedy s most intrepid heroine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC). Sophocles s works available in Penguin Classics are The Theban Plays and Electra and Other Plays.