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The Secret History is the first novel by the American author Donna Tartt, published by Alfred A. Knopf in September 1992. Set in New England, the campus novel tells the story of a closely knit group of six classics students at Hampden College, a small liberal arts college located in Vermont based upon Bennington College, where Tartt was a ...
- 544 pp
- Donna Tartt
- September 16, 1992
- Alfred A. Knopf
Sep 16, 1992 · Donna Tartt. 4.17. 751,145 ratings82,483 reviews. 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 ...
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Sep 11, 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.
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The Secret History Full Book Summary. In 1983, Richard Papen transfers from a college in his hometown of Plano, California, to Hampden College in Vermont, taken in by the beautiful scenery in a brochure. After experiencing some pushback, Richard is accepted into an exclusive ancient Greek program taught by Professor Julian Morrow, with five ...
Oct 21, 2022 · Tartt's Class of 86 also included Jonathan Lethem, and Bret Easton Ellis – to whom Tartt dedicated The Secret History. Ellis published his first novel, Less Than Zero, while still a student at ...
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Oct 18, 2013 · Donna Tartt discusses The Secret History with John Mullan at the Guardian Book Club on 19 November, 7pm, The Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7. Tickets £12.
“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
