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"

Wrecked (The Westin Legacies #1)
Write Me for You
The Homemaker (The Chain of Lakes #1)
Let Me Love You (All of Me, #2)
From Air (Wildfire, #1)
From Nowhere (Wildfire, #2)
The Stars are on Our Side
A Pessimist's Guide to Love (Heartsong, #2)
Shattered Dreams (Dream, #1)
Before Us
A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice
The Lovely Return
Kill the Beast  (Villains, #11)
15 Summers Later
Entropy
宝石の国 12 [Houseki no Kuni 12] (Land of the Lustrous, #12)
Alone with You
The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Falling Like Stars
Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 8
Once We Were Starlight
Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 6
The First Loss (Rogue X Ara, #0.5)
Meet Me in the Middle
Hot Springs Drive
The One I Want
These Rough Waters (Ravenpeak Bay #1)
Survivor Tree
Full Flight
Secrets of Our House
Time Stamps
당신의 이해를 돕기 위하여 1 (What It Means to be You, Vol. 1)
Why Don't You Love Me?
Below The Pulse: A Dark Romantic Thriller (Below The Pulse Duet, Part One)
Back On Me: A Dark Romantic Thriller (Below The Pulse Duet, Part Two)
Running Past Dark
Straw Dogs of the Universe
The Little Mermaid
Sheltered (Their Possession, #1)
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The Wrath & the Dawn G...
 
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Friedrich Nietzsche
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Fredrik Backman
Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.
Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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