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
The Ballad of Ronan McCoy
Learning Curve (Dickson University, #1)
Before Us
From Nowhere (Wildfire, #2)
Shattered Dreams (Dream #1)
Let Me Love You (All of Me, #2)
The Lovely Return
A Pessimist's Guide to Love (Heartsong, #2)
Little Pieces of Light (Castle Hill Academy, #1)
The French Honeymoon
ケントゥリア 1 [Centuria 1]
A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice
15 Summers Later
When We Met  (Moments in Boston, #2)
The King's Jewel
Krieg (Warhammer 40,000)
Hot Springs Drive
ケントゥリア 2 [Centuria 2]
Falling Like Stars
少年のアビス 7 [Shōnen no Abyss 7]
少年のアビス 6 [Shōnen no Abyss 6]
少年のアビス 5 [Shōnen no Abyss 5]
These Rough Waters (Ravenpeak Bay #1)
宝石の国 12 [Houseki no Kuni 12] (Land of the Lustrous, #12)
Once We Were Starlight
The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Alone with You
Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 8
Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 6
少年のアビス 10 [Shōnen no Abyss 10]
少年のアビス 8 [Shōnen no Abyss 8]
Entropy
少年のアビス 9 [Shōnen no Abyss 9]
少年のアビス 4 [Shōnen no Abyss 4]
Full Flight
Straw Dogs of the Universe
Time Stamps
The One I Want
Back on Me (Below the Pulse Duet #2; Up in Lights)
少年のアビス 13 [Shōnen no Abyss 13]
少年のアビス 12 [Shōnen no Abyss 12]
少年のアビス 11 [Shōnen no Abyss 11]
The First Loss (Rogue X Ara, #0.5)
Running Past Dark
Survivor Tree
Below the Pulse (Below the Pulse Duet #1; Up in Lights)
The Little Mermaid
Why Don't You Love Me?
당신의 이해를 돕기 위하여 1 (What It Means to be You, Vol. 1)
Sheltered (Their Possession, #1)
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