Tragicomedy

Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can variously describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending.

Waiting for Godot
The Casual Vacancy
Lolita
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Der Besuch der alten Dame
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Tempest
Infinite Jest
The Merchant of Venice
The Bee Sting
Lessons in Chemistry
The Winter's Tale
Philaster (Arden Early Modern Drama)
Cat’s Cradle
Less (Arthur Less, #1)
Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
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The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienEast of Eden by John SteinbeckLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellIt by Stephen  King
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Her face, the face of a saint, an intense little Madonna, was lifted fragilely out of the mortal dust of the afternoon.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jacob's Ladder

G.K. Chesterton
Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists. The first study large things and live in a small world; the second study small things and live in a large world
G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

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