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| Title | : | The Secret History |
| Author | : | Donna Tartt |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Vintage Contemporary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 559 pages |
| Published | : | April 13th 2004 by Vintage (first published September 1992) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Philosophy. Young Adult. Novels. Romance |
Donna Tartt
Paperback | Pages: 559 pages Rating: 4.1 | 275027 Users | 19823 Reviews
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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 they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil.
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| Original Title: | The Secret History |
| ISBN: | 1400031702 (ISBN13: 9781400031702) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Richard Papen, Camilla Macaulay, Julian Morrow, Charles Macaulay, Henry Winter, Bunny Corcoran, Francis Abernathy |
| Setting: | New Hampshire(United States) Hampden, Vermont(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Mekka-prijs (1994), Prix des libraires du Québec for Lauréats hors Québec (1994) |
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Ratings: 4.1 From 275027 Users | 19823 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books The Secret History
This novel, like so many other first novels, is full of everything that the author wants to show off about herself. Like a freshman who annoys everyone with her overbearing sense of importance and unfathomable potential, Donna Tartt wrote this book as though the world couldn't wait to read about all of the bottled-up personal beliefs, literary references, and colorfully apt metaphors that she had been storing up since the age of 17.The most fundamentally unlikable thing about this book is thatKatherine wrote: "So hard core agree, reading through Richard's perspective was like experiencing all life's elements around him and smelling the old
UPDATE 18/02/2014:-Given how often I think of this book and the conspicuous prickle at the back of my neck every time I remember the characters and their cold complicity in one ignoble act after another, I guess it won't be an exaggeration to state that the memories of reading this book are more potent than the experience of actually reading it was. I am not disowning my earlier review but I believe the only way to be fair to Donna Tartt will be to concede another star. Now begins my earlier
this book...is so good. I read it on the advice of one of my mentors in all things literary, and did so fairly quickly, because its absorbing and
One of my all time favorites. It's been a while since I read it, have to reread it soon. Great story, very intelligent, very fascinating, keeps you going on and on page by page until the end. Remember reading it on a camping trip in Canada! Simply brilliant. Top ten best reads ever.
When Richard Papen joins an exclusive group of Classics students, he has no idea of the secret world of drugs, alcohol, and violence he's about to be thrust into. When one of the students winds up dead, can the rest cope or destroy themselves?Yeah, it sounds like the crime books I usually read but it's a whole lot deeper than that. This is one of those Big Important Books, full of things like themes and literary references. Like Jim Thompson getting the sauce under control and writing about
I understand why The Secret History is loathed as much as it is loved. If I remove myself a bit from what I just read, I note implausible dialogue and somewhat unbelievable plot elements, horrifically selfish and nasty main characters, overflowing with evil, sure, but mostly with ennui and snobbery and drunkenness and poor-little-rich-people and an air of erudition that's more smokescreen than substance.I can admit to all of that objectively. Subjectively, I feverishly read this in a day and
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