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When richard goes to college, he wants nothing more than to fit in and become part of a group. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the secret history. The secret history new edition by tartt, donna, sims, adam isbn. Oct 19, 2011 the secret history ebook written by donna tartt.
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The secret history by donna tartt, book of a lifetime. Richard, an unhappy young man living in california, relocates to vermont to study at hampden college. The secret history, published by penguin uk in 1993, is available in paperback. Each of these novels involves suspense and intense character studies.
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A bunch of eversomandarin college kids in a small vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact dionysian frenzies in the woods. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. 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. Jan 11, 2008 i had a flirtation with the secret history before i ever read it. If you liked the secret history by donna tartt i make no secret of the fact that i absolutely adored this book. 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. Buy the secret history by donna tartt from waterstones today.
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