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The Secret History by Donna Tartt, which follows a group of highly intelligent Classics students at the elite Hampden College in New England. Richard Papen, who comes from a humble background in California, joins this small, privileged group and becomes increasingly embedded in their world of wealth and intellectual pursuits. However, darkness lies just below the surface, and soon bursts out when one of the group is murdered. The novel traces the events leading up to the killing and examines its life-changing impact on the remaining students.
The Secret History is Donna Tartt’s first novel; she is also known for her novels
The Little Friend and
The Goldfinch.
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DONNA TARTT
AMERICAN WRITER
Born in Mississippi (United States) in 1963.Notable works:A Christmas Pageant (1993), short storyThe Little Friend (2002), novelThe Goldfinch (2013), novelDonna Tartt is an American writer best known for her novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002) and The Goldfinch (2013). She studied at the University of Mississippi and later Bennington College, under the guidance of novelist Barry Hannah (American novelist and short story writer, 1942-2010). She comes from a deeply literary family and has a particular interest in Classics. She often looks at guilt, social class and aesthetic beauty in her work, and her writing style is verbose yet gripping as she skilfully creates characters who are intriguing in their sophistication. Tartt’s reclusive nature only adds to the allure of her novels, already heightened by their beguiling and intellectual subject matter.
THE SECRET HISTORY
GREEK MYTHOLOGY MEETS DEAD POETS SOCIETY
Genre: novelReference edition: Tartt, D. (1993) The Secret History. London: Penguin Books.1stedition: 1992Themes: guilt, obsession, Classics, paranoia, social class, fate, alcoholism, murderDonna Tartt’s debut novel The Secret History had a generally positive reception, selling over a million copies and becoming widely recognised as a modern classic. It has since been translated into 28 different languages.
Narrated by one of the characters as he reminisces about his school days nine years into the future, The Secret History follows a group of highly intellectual students at the fictional Hampden College where they murdered one of their friends. The prologue opens with the pivotal killing, while the first half of the novel then moves back in time to build up to the event, revealing how it came about. The second half follows the mental deterioration of the remaining characters, which once more proves to have fatal consequences.
