The Secret History

The Secret History

By Donna Tartt

Pages

629

Rating

4.44

Year

1992

ContemporaryThrillerFictionMysteryClassicsMystery Thriller

Description

'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together—my future, my past, the whole of my life—and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!'

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.

Endorsements

'Haunting, compelling and brilliant' — The Times

'Irresistible and seductive' — The Guardian

'Enthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled' — The New York Times

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