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"I am taught by suffering to endure": First Edition of Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays; inscribed by translator Robert Fagles
SOPHOCLES; ROBERT FAGLES [TRANSLATOR],.
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus.
New York: The Viking Press, 1982.
First edition of this vivid and accessible translation of Sophocles’ tragedies. Royal octavo, publisher's original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the translator on the half-title page, "For Rooney - three dark plays - Bob Fagles." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ann Gold. Translated by Robert Fagles. Introductions and notes by Bernard Knox.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 148688
