num_pages: 658
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 they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last—inexorably—into evil.
language: English
title: The Secret History
titlecomplete: The Secret History
characters: Julian Morrow, Richard Papen, Camilla Macaulay, Charles Macaulay, Henry Winter, Edmund Corcoran, Francis Abernathy
genres: Classics, Mystery, Adult, Novels, Thriller, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 649390
places: New England, Vermont, The United States of America, Hampden College, Vermont
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Mekka-prijs, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Prix des libraires du Québec
category: Lauréats hors Québec
publisher: Penguin