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  • Published: 28 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141042077
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.99

The Secret History

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch




The dark academia bestseller that defined an age

Penguin Audiobooks presents Donna Tartt's cult thriller The Secret History, unabridged, downloadable and read by the author herself.

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 smartest murder-mystery you will ever hear

  • Published: 28 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141042077
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt was educated at the University of Mississippi and Bennington College, and is the author of a second novel, The Little Friend. She lives in Mississippi and New York City.

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