The Secret History by Donna Tartt - ISBN: 9780241621905
Hardcover
Privilege, secrets, and murder haunt a close-knit group of classics students.

The Secret History

30th anniversary edition

$46.11

  • Hardcover

    640 pages

  • Release Date

    29 November 2022

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Summary

The 30th anniversary edition of the bestseller that defined an age.

“Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together—my future, my past, the whole of my life—and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!”

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241621905
ISBN-10:0241621909
Author:Donna Tartt
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Viking
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:640
Release Date:29 November 2022
Weight:822g
Dimensions:242mm x 157mm x 39mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

So irresistible and seductive it’s almost a guilty pleasure

The Secret History succeeds magnificently … A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment … Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled * New York Times *So irresistible and seductive it’s almost a guilty pleasure * Guardian *A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read * Vanity Fair *Donna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She’s dense, she’s allusive. She’s a gorgeous storyteller – Stephen KingTakes my breath away – Ruth RendellBrilliant and compulsive * Evening Standard *A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction … Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth * The Times *

About The Author

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 most recent novel, The Goldfinch.

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