The Secret HistoryTruly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt’s novel is a remarkable achievement—both 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 forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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User Review - Ma_Washigeri - LibraryThingStarted badly. The voice telling the tale is not attractive. Reading it in an american accent (Arlo Guthrie) does improve the tone but slows down the reading - and I did want to finish this quickly ... Read full review
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User Review - amerynth - LibraryThingDonna Tartt's novel "The Secret History" is a hard book for me to rate. I actually enjoyed the story as it unfolded, but if I started to think about it too much, it sort of unraveled for me. (If you ... Read full review
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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Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Secret History A Borzoi book |
| Author | Donna Tartt |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Knopf, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0679410325, 9780679410324 |
| Length | 523 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General |
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