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"

Write Me for You
From Air (Wildfire, #1)
The Lost Passenger
From Nowhere (Wildfire, #2)
A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice
If We Say Goodbye
Shattered Dreams (Dream, #1)
The Stars are on Our Side
No Friend to This House: A Novel
A Pessimist's Guide to Love (Heartsong, #2)
Let Me Love You (All of Me, #2)
Before Us
Give Me Peace
Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 8
The Lovely Return
15 Summers Later
Entropy
Kill the Beast  (Villains, #11)
The Life You Stole (Life, #2)
Falling Like Stars
Meet Me in the Middle
당신의 이해를 돕기 위하여 1 (What It Means to be You, Vol. 1)
Hot Springs Drive
宝石の国 12 [Houseki no Kuni 12] (Land of the Lustrous, #12)
宝石の国 11 [Hōseki no kuni 11]
The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Boy's Abyss, vol. 2
Loving Reaper
The Cabin
Sleeping Dead, Tome 2
These Rough Waters (Ravenpeak Bay #1)
Once We Were Starlight
Us After You
The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls
Secrets of Our House
The One I Want
The God of Nishi-Yuigahama Station
Why Don't You Love Me?
The First Loss (Rogue X Ara, #0.5)
We Will Rise: A True Story of Tragedy and Resurrection in the American Heartland
Into the Clear Water
Time Stamps
Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy
Back On Me (Below The Pulse Duet, Part 2) (Up in Lights)
Full Flight
Straw Dogs of the Universe
Sheltered (Their Possession, #1)
Running Past Dark
Below The Pulse (Below The Pulse Duet, Part 1) (Up in Lights)
The Little Mermaid
Survivor Tree
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