When you hear "book of tragedy", what classic books comes to mind?
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Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
Native Son, Richard Wright
Billy Budd, Herman Melville
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
The Man Who Laughs, Victor Hugo
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The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
Native Son, Richard Wright
Billy Budd, Herman Melville
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
The Man Who Laughs, Victor Hugo
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Exodus (That's a classic, right?) or one of the Greek tragedies like Oedipus or Antigone.
Or maybe it's the up-coming companion volume to Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Although that contained enough tragedy as it was.
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Or maybe it's the up-coming companion volume to Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Although that contained enough tragedy as it was.
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Jude the Obscure. The most tragic book I've ever read. Ever. And I've read a lot. European lit was my favourite class and they write nothing but tragedies.
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Right. Like:
The Good Soldier Svejk, Jaroslav Hasek
Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov
Penguin Island, Anatole France
Candide, Voltaire
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The New Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Which is now updated to include recent accounts for the 160,000 martyred in 2001.
Blacbird, give me a break. I was generalizing. Of course they write other stuff besides tragedies. I was being semi-facetious. 90% of the stuff you get to study is a tragedy. As my professor said, "If you didnt want to kill yourself before this course, you sure as well will after this course." He also was being semi-facetious.
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"Tragedy" as a genre has nothing to do with regular lit. It's a dramatic form.
Plays might be tragedies, but books and poetry never meant to be performed can't be tragedy.
Don't blame me, blame Aristotle.
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Plays might be tragedies, but books and poetry never meant to be performed can't be tragedy.
Don't blame me, blame Aristotle.
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Usually I think of plays, not books.
Shakespeare's plays, particularly Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.
Sophocles's Oedipus trilogies.
Shakespeare's plays, particularly Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.
Sophocles's Oedipus trilogies.
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Macbeth and Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.
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Others that come to mind include The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Lord of the Flies (I don't remember the author's name), Dragonheart by Charles Edward Pogue, and Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe.
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Others that come to mind include The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Lord of the Flies (I don't remember the author's name), Dragonheart by Charles Edward Pogue, and Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe.
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