num_pages: 3
description: Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch , established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.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 (Audiobook)
characters: Henry Winter, Julian Morrow, Charles Macaulay, Edmund Corcoran, Francis Abernathy, Richard Papen, Camilla Macaulay
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 650591
places: New England, Hampden College, Vermont, The United States of America, Vermont
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Mekka-prijs, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Prix des libraires du Québec
category: Lauréats hors Québec
publisher: Penguin Audiobooks