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 Stars are on Our Side
From Nowhere (Wildfire, #2)
Before Us
Let Me Love You (All of Me, #2)
A Pessimist's Guide to Love (Heartsong, #2)
Shattered Dreams (Dream #1)
15 Summers Later
A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice
Kill the Beast  (Villains, #11)
The French Honeymoon
The Lovely Return
Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 6
Entropy
ケントゥリア 1 [Centuria 1]
Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 8
These Rough Waters (Ravenpeak Bay #1)
The King's Jewel
Hot Springs Drive
宝石の国 12 [Houseki no Kuni 12] (Land of the Lustrous, #12)
Once We Were Starlight
Falling Like Stars
Alone with You
The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Meet Me in the Middle
The One I Want
The Little Mermaid
Straw Dogs of the Universe
Running Past Dark
Time Stamps
Why Don't You Love Me?
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Survivor Tree
Back on Me (Below the Pulse Duet #2; Up in Lights)
The First Loss (Rogue X Ara, #0.5)
Below the Pulse (Below the Pulse Duet #1; Up in Lights)
당신의 이해를 돕기 위하여 1 (What It Means to be You, Vol. 1)
Sheltered (Their Possession, #1)
Full Flight

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Jean Racine
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Jean Racine

Erma Bombeck
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

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