The Secret History: A Read with Jenna PickA 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 |
Contents
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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