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  • Published: 29 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241621905
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 640
  • RRP: $49.99

The Secret History

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch

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Paperback
3 Oct 2002
Hardback
29 Nov 2022
Audiobook
28 Aug 2010
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The 30th anniversary edition of the bestseller that defined an age

'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!'

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
  • Published: 29 November 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241621905
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 640
  • RRP: $49.99
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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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Praise for The Secret History

The Secret History succeeds magnificently ... A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment ... Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled

New York Times

So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure

Guardian

A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read

Vanity Fair

Donna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense, she's allusive. She's a gorgeous storyteller

Stephen King

Takes my breath away

Ruth Rendell

Brilliant and compulsive

Evening Standard

A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction ... Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth

The Times

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