The Secret History
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- ID: 62
- Added: 2025-08-30
- Updated: 2025-08-30
- Reviews: 3
A 'haunting, compelling, and brilliant'(The Times) novel about a group of students who, under the influence of their professor find their lives changed forever, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch Truly deserving of the accolade 'modern classic', Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement - compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. 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 for ever as they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. '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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- She does a brilliant job of bringing the characters she created to life.
- The Secret History is a long book and it isn't until later that it fully captures you.
- The narrative is engaging and the characters are complex and well-drawn.
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- Successfully balances literary merit with being incredibly readable and enjoyable.
- Beautifully taut and, at times, humorous.
- A compelling and thoughtful narrative that keeps you hooked.
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- A story that I devour and really want to read and reread.
- The book’s enigmatic author and mysterious atmosphere intrigued me before I even read it.
- It’s a novel that stays with you long after the last page.