The Secret History

The Secret History - Vintage Contemporaries

1st Vintage Contemporaries Edition

Paperback (13 Apr 2004)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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

Book information

ISBN: 9781400031702
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries Edition
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Sales rank: 4419
Number of pages: 559
Weight: 400g
Height: 132mm
Width: 202mm
Spine width: 33mm