& It&s a dreadful thing to yieldbut 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 & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & 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 & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) Sophocles&s works available in Penguin Classics are The Theban Plays & Electra & Other Plays