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)
The Homemaker (The Chain of Lakes #1)
The Stars are on Our Side
Write Me for You
A Pessimist's Guide to Love (Heartsong, #2)
Shattered Dreams (Dream #1)
Before Us
From Nowhere (Wildfire, #2)
Let Me Love You (All of Me, #2)
A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice
The Lovely Return
The French Honeymoon
Kill the Beast  (Villains, #11)
15 Summers Later
Entropy
宝石の国 12 [Houseki no Kuni 12] (Land of the Lustrous, #12)
Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 6
Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition Vol. 8
The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Meet Me in the Middle
Hot Springs Drive
Falling Like Stars
Once We Were Starlight
These Rough Waters (Ravenpeak Bay #1)
The One I Want
Running Past Dark
Survivor Tree
Alone with You
Time Stamps
Straw Dogs of the Universe
Back on Me (Below the Pulse Duet #2; Up in Lights)
The First Loss (Rogue X Ara, #0.5)
The Little Mermaid
Full Flight
Why Don't You Love Me?
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)
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One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.
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