Tragedy novels

1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons; and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession, revenge, and reconciliation, the novel is influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It is considered a classic of English literature.

' ( , ) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism''''' (1947). A young man, Candide, lives a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise, being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. This lifestyle is abruptly ended, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire

novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1985 novel by Margaret Atwood

2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy

1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

novel by Ken Kesey

2005 novel by John Green

1985 novel by Cormac McCarthy

1872 novel by Ouida

novel by Vasily Grossman

1961 novel by Richard Yates

novel by Jurek Becker (1969)

novel by Christopher Isherwood

novel Hubert Selby Jr.

book by Zelda Fitzgerald

novel by Pannalal Patel