Cover art for The Secret History
Published
Penguin, July 1993
ISBN
9780140167771
Format
Softcover, 640 pages
Dimensions
19.6cm × 13cm × 3cm

The Secret History From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch by

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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 their lives are changed profoundly and for ever.

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