Most Read This Week In Tragedy

Tragedy (Ancient Greek: τραγῳδία, tragōidia, "he-goat-song"]. is a form of art based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy refers to a specific tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western civilisation. That tradition has been multiple and discontinuous, yet the term has often been used to invoke a powerful effect of cultural identity and historical continuity—"the Greeks and the Elizabethans, in one cultural form; Hellenes an ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Tragedy"

Vera, or Faith
June First
Rabbit Moon
From Air (Wildfire, #1)
From Nowhere (Wildfire, #2)
Shattered Dreams (Dream, #1)
A Pessimist's Guide to Love (Heartsong, #2)
An Optimist's Guide to Heartbreak (Heartsong, #1)
15 Summers Later
The Lovely Return
If We Say Goodbye
Kill the Beast  (Villains, #11)
Before Us
Let Me Love You (All of Me, #2)
The Cabin
Kiss the Stars (Falling Stars, #1)
A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice
宝石の国 12 [Houseki no Kuni 12] (Land of the Lustrous, #12)
宝石の国 11 [Hōseki no kuni 11]
Entropy
Once We Were Starlight
Meet Me in the Middle
Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 8
Hot Springs Drive
당신의 이해를 돕기 위하여 1 (What It Means to be You, Vol. 1)
The One I Want
Falling Like Stars
Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 6
The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls
The Life You Stole (Life, #2)
These Rough Waters (Ravenpeak Bay #1)
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The First Loss
 
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J.D. Linton
Survivor Tree
Goodbye, My Princess
Why Don't You Love Me?
Loving Reaper
Into the Clear Water
Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy
Secrets of Our House
Sheltered (Their Possession, #1)
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The Wrath & the Dawn G...
 
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Renée Ahdieh
The God of Nishi-Yuigahama Station
The Little Mermaid
Us After You
Below The Pulse (Below The Pulse Duet, Part 1) (Up in Lights)
We Will Rise: A True Story of Tragedy and Resurrection in the American Heartland
Time Stamps
Straw Dogs of the Universe
Back On Me (Below The Pulse Duet, Part 2) (Up in Lights)

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Mel Brooks
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

J.K. Rowling
Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more. ...more
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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