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The Secret History

Donna Tartt

Published1992
Pages608
Open Library4.1 / 5
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Excerpt

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil.

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  • United States

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • College students
  • Teacher-student relationships
  • Classicists
  • Murder
  • Murderers
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Fiction, psychological
  • College teachers, fiction
  • Vermont, fiction

People

  • Richard Papen
  • Henry Winter
  • Bunny Corcoran
  • Francis Abernathy
  • Charles Macaulay
  • Camilla Macaulay
  • Julian Morrow

Times & places

  • 1982
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Oct 13, 2026

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