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Overview. Donna Tartt's first novel, The Secret History, contains elements of mystery and of the psychological fiction genre. It was published in 1992. The novel’s action takes place around the elite liberal arts campus of fictional Hampden College in Vermont, a the setting that mirrors Tartt’s experience in the 1980s at Bennington College ...
Sep 16, 1992 · 775,710 ratings85,970 reviews. 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 ...
The Secret History is a grand read–an artful blend of intelligence, entertainment, and suspense that quickens the pulse.” —The Virginian Pilot & Ledger-Star “Beautifully written, suspenseful from start to finish.” —Vogue “One of the best American college novels to come along since John Knowles’s A Seperate Peace. . . .
May 2, 2013 · The Secret History was a perfect choice for my book club because there are so many topics for possible conversation. They can range from the praise and criticism that I just gave to speculation over the assignment of blame for the crimes committed by the protagonists to suggesting different directions the story could have taken at the end.
The Secret History combines a bit of both--the unmistakable whiff of evil from William Golding's classic and the mad recklessness of priviledged youth from Bret Easton Ellis's novel of the '80s. . . . As stony and chilling as any Greek tragedian ever plumbed."
- Donna Tartt
The Secret History is a page-turner structured as a classic mystery tale, but there is more to the novel than plot alone. Telling his story as if it were still unfolding, though in fact he is recalling events long since past, the narrator, Richard Papen, leaves behind his unsatisfying teenage years in California to enroll at Hampden, a small, exclusive college in Vermont.
Mar 8, 2022 · The Secret History. 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 ...
