A genre of dramatic works that is characterized by its serious and dignified style, and typically presents the downfall of its main character(s) due to their own errors or flaws.
War and Peace
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Middlemarch
George Eliot
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson