The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Oct 19, 2011 - Fiction - 544 pages
A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years


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.

“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —The New York Times
 

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Contents

Section 1
4
Section 2
5
Section 3
7
Section 4
31
Section 5
44
Section 6
57
Section 7
98
Section 8
121
Section 24
279
Section 25
281
Section 26
283
Section 27
298
Section 28
303
Section 29
304
Section 30
306
Section 31
340

Section 9
125
Section 10
126
Section 11
129
Section 12
131
Section 13
144
Section 14
157
Section 15
163
Section 16
214
Section 17
224
Section 18
227
Section 19
235
Section 20
256
Section 21
257
Section 22
261
Section 23
270
Section 32
347
Section 33
352
Section 34
354
Section 35
357
Section 36
371
Section 37
396
Section 38
447
Section 39
451
Section 40
457
Section 41
479
Section 42
507
Section 43
513
Section 44
525
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About the author (2011)

DONNA TARTT is the author of the novels The Secret History, The Little Friend, and The Goldfinch. Her work has been published in forty languages and her third novel, The Goldfinch, was awarded the Carnegie Medal and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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