In this brilliant novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author 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 ...

The Secret History

Literature & Fiction

Donna Tartt

Literary

HarperAudio

Various Orange Prize 2012 3 Books Collection Pack Set RRP: £27.88 (State of Wonder, The Song of Achilles, Painter of Silence)

ANN PATCHETT

MADELINE MILLER

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.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 their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.

Contemporary

Penguin

The Secret History (Penguin Celebrations)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Penguin??Books

A misfit at an exclusive new england college, richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient greek class but his new friends have a horrific secret when blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag richard into the nightmare that engulfs them and soon they enter a terrifying heart of darkness from which they may never return ...

The Secret History (Popular Penguins)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2014-6-1 Pages: 962 Publisher: Hachette The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade. a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind ... .Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction .-- Stephen King. The New York Times Book Review Theo Decker. a 13-year-old New Yorker. miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father. Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue. disturbed by schoolmates who dont know how to talk to him. and tormented above all by his longing for his mother. he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small. mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art As an adult. Theo moves silkily between the d...

GOLDFINCH:A NOVEL

Hachette

Goldfinch

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

The Little Friend

BLOOMSBURY

The narrator of this story is a boy who leaves California to attend a college in New England. He falls in with a group of students of Ancient Greek. Four of their number work themselves into a trance-like condition one night, and murder a local farmer. Bunny then tries to blackmail the others.

Secret History

Penguin Putnam~childrens Hc

Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic. 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 their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. From the Trade Paperback edition.

United States

Alfred.A. Knopf

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