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Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 223,015 ratings — published 1951
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.31 — 337,508 ratings — published 2012
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.87 — 949,316 ratings — published 1955
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,193 ratings — published 1967
Der Besuch der alten Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.67 — 38,332 ratings — published 1956
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 299,209 ratings — published 1980
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.78 — 228,057 ratings — published 1611
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.25 — 101,861 ratings — published 1996
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,372 ratings — published 1596
The Bee Sting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.88 — 135,917 ratings — published 2023
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,796,626 ratings — published 2022
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 36,776 ratings — published 1623
Philaster (Arden Early Modern Drama)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.46 — 157 ratings — published 1620
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.15 — 438,327 ratings — published 1963
Less (Arthur Less, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.62 — 224,571 ratings — published 2017
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.95 — 126,250 ratings — published 2001
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,487,771 ratings — published 1969
The Cherry Orchard (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.69 — 45,547 ratings — published 1903
Mother Courage and Her Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.62 — 22,836 ratings — published 1941
The World According to Garp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.11 — 239,201 ratings — published 1978
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 781,749 ratings — published 1962
Cymbeline (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.60 — 11,949 ratings — published 1610
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.87 — 599,968 ratings — published 2012
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.76 — 302,514 ratings — published 1759
Endgame (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,408 ratings — published 1957
No One Is Talking About This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.55 — 55,739 ratings — published 2021
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 49,054 ratings — published 2019
Death and the Penguin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.78 — 22,503 ratings — published 1996
The Witch (The New Mermaids)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.26 — 174 ratings — published 1616
The Two Noble Kinsmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.40 — 2,696 ratings — published 1614
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.21 — 218,893 ratings — published 1869
Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.05 — 145,230 ratings — published 2018
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,435 ratings — published 2018
The Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 38,369 ratings — published 1895
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,733 ratings — published 1349
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.73 — 23,049 ratings — published 1767
Measure for Measure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.67 — 31,418 ratings — published 1604
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,211,934 ratings — published 1954
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.44 — 644,544 ratings — published 1952
Arcadia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,237 ratings — published 1993
Washington Square (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 25,918 ratings — published 1880
The Hotel New Hampshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 69,061 ratings — published 1981
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,149 ratings — published 1965
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.16 — 49,873 ratings — published 1955
Straight Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,435 ratings — published 1997
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,742,426 ratings — published 2012
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,028,733 ratings — published 1844
Far From the Madding Crowd (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.97 — 166,737 ratings — published 1874
The History Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,565 ratings — published 2004
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.88 — 428,992 ratings — published 1838
“And in a way, you could say that my father's end was my beginning...Or more precisely, that the end of his lie coincided with the beginning of my truth”
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“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex being a great example. Oedipus is drawn into tragedy not because of laziness or stupidity, but because of his courage and honesty. So an inevitable irony results.
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”
― Kafka on the Shore
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”
― Kafka on the Shore
