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The secret history / Donna Tartt.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Tartt Secret
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tartt, Donna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teacher-student relationships--Fiction.
- College students--Fiction.
- Classicists--Fiction.
- Murder--Fiction.
- Murderers--Fiction.
- Vermont--Fiction.
- Classicists.
- College students.
- Murder.
- Murderers.
- Teacher-student relationships.
- Vermont.
- Genre:
- College stories.
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 559 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books ; Toronto : Random House of Canada, Limited, [2004]
- Summary:
- Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable.
- "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."--Back cover.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tartt, Donna. Secret history.
- ISBN:
- 1400031702
- 9781400031702
- OCLC:
- 55990486
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