The secret history

523 pages

English language

Published Oct. 30, 1992 by Knopf, Distributed by Random House.

ISBN:
9780679410324

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5 stars (1 review)

In a rural Vermont college, a group of Classics students get carried away at a bacchanal, and an innocent man is killed. To what lengths will the students go, to protect their clique?

11 editions

Cold, calculating fiction.

5 stars

Everything about this book is perfect, the writing flows beautifully and the plot is abhorrently complex. Donna Tarte pays perfect attention to events in the story, you can look back after all is revealed and see when these events happened, and what's most pleasant, is that it is hard to figure out why exactly the Murder takes place but you can still piece the story together just before all is revealed. The extensive reference to classical literature was a delight for me. Overall a thrilling read which I would recommend to anyone.

Subjects

  • Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction
  • College students -- Fiction
  • Classicists -- Fiction
  • Murderers -- Fiction
  • Vermont -- Fiction