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May 2, 2013 · The Secret History. Donna Tartt. Little, Brown Book Group, May 2, 2013 - Fiction - 544 pages. 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 ...
Jan 1, 1992 · Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. Her first novel, The Secret History, was published in 1992. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel, The Little Friend, which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
Oct 18, 2013 · Discover why The Secret History is a modern classic, from its gripping murder plot to its obsession with ancient Greece and its confessional tone.
Apr 11, 2024 · The Secret History, murder mystery novel by Donna Tartt, published in 1992. Tartt’s first novel, begun when she was still at Bennington College and bought for a reported $450,000 by Knopf after a bidding war, quickly became a bestseller and made its author a reluctant star. The critics were not impressed: they thought the book leaden ...
Apr 13, 2004 · "The Secret History implicates the reader in a conspiracy which begins in bucolic enchantment and ends exactly where it must—though a less gifted or fearless writer would never have been able to imagine such a rich skein of consequence. Donna Tartt has written a mesmerizing and powerful novel." —Jay McInerney
Sep 16, 1992 · The story's very ambiguity steadily feeds its mysteriousness and power, and Danielewski's mastery of postmodernist and cinema-derived rhetoric up the ante continuously, and stunningly. One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year. 10. Pub Date: March 6, 2000. ISBN: 0-375-70376-4.
Full Book Analysis. The central conflict of The Secret History is, as the narrator Richard declares as his fatal flaw, the longing for the picturesque at any cost. All the novel’s characters, including and especially Richard, are obsessed with outer appearances, and it is this obsession that drives most of their actions and relationships.
