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The secret history
2004
Where is it?
Fiction/Biography Profile
Awards
1993 - American Booksellers Book of the Year (ABBY) Award nominee
Characters
Julian Morrow (Male), Professor, Charismatic; classics professor
Richard Papen (Male), College student, Californian
Genre
Suspense
Psychological
Thriller
Literary
Fiction
Topics
Scholars
College students
Idealism
Intellectualism
Greek culture
Decadence
Accidental deaths
Conspiracies
Cover-ups
Secrets
Moral decay
Guilt
Murder
Suicide
Life choices
Loss of innocence
Setting
Vermont - New England (U.S.)
Time Period
1990s -- 20th century
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Summary
A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK * ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE 'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" ( Village Voice ), from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch.

One of The Atlantic 's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.

"A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled." -- The New York Times
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