Tragedy Books

Miss Sara Sampson

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Miss Sara Sampson is a play by the Enlightenment philosopher, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Written in 1755 while the author was living in Potsdam, it is seen by many scholars to be one of the first bourg..

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

George Chapman

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois is a tragedy drama written by George Chapman, an English dramatist, translator, and poet.In this volume an attempt is made for the first time to edit B..

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound is the only complete tragedy of the Prometheia trilogy, traditionally assumed to be the work of Aeschylus. Jupiter has turned against Prometheus for protecting mankind and has ordered..

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6

Samuel Richardson

It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson's masterpiece. This is Volume six out of a series of nine Vo..

La mort de César - Tragédie

Voltaire

La mort de César: Tragédie is a French tragedy drama of the English version (The Death of Caesar ) by Voltaire...

Die Geburt der Tragödie - Versuch einer Selbstkritik

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Die Geburt der Tragödie: Versuch einer Selbstkritik is the German origin of the translated English title "The Birth of Tragedy" from the Spirit of Music is an 1872 work of dramatic theory by the Germa..

King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays

Floyd Dell

King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays is a collection 11 one act plays written by Floyd Dell, an American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, and poet. The..

The Flood

Émile Zola

The Flood is  a short story by Émile Zola, a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism. The story is set in the village of Sai..