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The Secret History

Donna Tartt

578 pages

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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.

Themes
Dark & BroodingMysteriousPhilosophy & Big IdeasThought-ProvokingStrange & UnsettlingThe seduction of intellectual elitismThe fragility of moral boundariesThe burden of shared secrets
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