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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Richard Pepen comes to the campus of Hampden College in Vermont to escape the featureless, dusty California of his childhood, and to further his studies of ancient Greek. In this tightly woven liberal arts community there are five other students of Papen's chosen subject, all of them intimidatingly remote from the rest of the student body and fiercely loyal to their professor and mentor, the stiffly eccentric Julian Morrow. Each of his students has surrendered control of their college curriculum entirely to him. Papen makes a similar sacrifice and progresses from these external rituals and loyalties to a much deeper, more disturbing involvement in Dionysian rites and murder. The consuming effects of his guilt and atonement occupy the latter sections of the novel.
Editions of The Secret History
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Publisher Random House Inc |
Date 2004 |
Price $4.95 |
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Publisher Ballantine Books |
Date 1996 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher Alfred a Knopf Inc |
Date 1992 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher Random House |
Date 1992 |
Price $18.16 |
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Ballantine Books |
Date 1993 |
Price $1.00 |
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Binding/Format Audio Cassette |
Publisher Harperaudio |
Date 2002 |
Price $25.59 |
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Publisher Notes
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. In this brilliant debut novel, Donna Tartt gives us a richly textured and hypnotic story of golden youth corrupted by its own moral arrogance. Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable. Yet as Richard was accepted and drawn into their inner circle, he learned a terrifying secret that bound them to one another ... a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brough to brutal life ... and lead to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning ... Review this book! |
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