Secret History
by Donna Tartt
4.1
(1,454 ratings)578 pages1992Penguin Books, LimitedISBN 9780241982884
ClassicsLGBTQmysterioussadA mix drivenWeak Character DevelopmentUnloveable CharactersDiverse CharactersmysteriousA mix drivenStrong Character DevelopmentUnloveable CharactersNot Diverse CharactersFictionMysteryFriendshipTragedyDark AcademiamysterioussadViolenceDeathHomophobiaMurdermentions of rapemisogynysuicideAlcoholismAddictionbullyingabusedeath of a friendsuicidal thoughtsClassismnarcissismCharacter drivenUnloveable Charactersfemale author
challengingdarkdarkinformativeemotionalreflectivetensemediumslowemotionaldarkreflective
About this book
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.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 578
- ISBN
- 9780241982884
- Language
- en
About Donna Tartt
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. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction for her novel The Goldfinch.
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