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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. <br/><br/>'Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!<br/>For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.' <br/><br/>Arguably the greatest love story ever told, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet continues to touch modern audiences with its passionate depiction of the tragic romance between two young lovers. With a bitter feud between their respective families, Romeo and Juliet's love is troubled from the start, and through their relationship, Shakespeare shows the fine line between love, hatred, comedy and tragedy.

'It's a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now?<br/>Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin?<br/>That's dreadful too.'<br/><br/>The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC). Sophocles's works available in Penguin Classics are<i> The Theban Plays </i>and <i>Electra and Other Plays.</i>