num_pages: 524
description: 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 forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.
language: English
title: The Secret History
titlecomplete: The Secret History
characters: Julian Morrow, Camilla Macaulay, Francis Abernathy, Henry Winter, Edmund Corcoran, Richard Papen, Charles Macaulay
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Literary Fiction, Adult, Novels
ratings_count: 649872
places: Hampden College, Vermont, New England, Vermont, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Mekka-prijs, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Prix des libraires du Québec
category: Lauréats hors Québec
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf