Antigone by Sophocles, Robert Fagles (Translator)

Antigone by Sophocles, Robert Fagles (Translator)'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.

Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown

what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it

bleak mountains of Tywyd

awaken the cognitive memories necessary to achieve our deepest personal healing

Retrace your steps

until he finally uncovers a gothic and grotesque story linking the Three Roses' unhappy residents to each other

not attending to conventional norms like those of the rs'

beautiful gardens of splendid palaces

fame and money you want

From the New York Times bestselling author of Exit West

marriage and drinking parties

creating a rich portrait of Anglo-Indian society