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

Wrecked (The Westin Legacies, #1)
Write Me for You
The Stars are on Our Side
Shattered Dreams (Dream, #1)
Let Me Love You (All of Me, #2)
A Pessimist's Guide to Love (Heartsong, #2)
The Homemaker (The Chain of Lakes #1)
From Nowhere (Wildfire, #2)
The French Honeymoon
Before Us
A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice
The Lovely Return
宝石の国 12 [Houseki no Kuni 12] (Land of the Lustrous, #12)
15 Summers Later
Kill the Beast  (Villains, #11)
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
The Great Gatsby
King Lear
Of Mice and Men
Wuthering Heights
Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
The Fault in Our Stars
Julius Caesar
The Song of Achilles
Death of a Salesman
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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What happened to them?
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9/11 in YA and Middle Grade Fiction
43 books — 48 voters
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44 books — 24 voters
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Tragic Romances
141 books — 181 voters


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