The Secret History: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch

· Penguin · Narrated by Donna Tartt
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THE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGE
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch

'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!'

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.

'Haunting, compelling and brilliant' The Times

'Irresistible and seductive' Guardian

'Enthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled' New York Times

©1992 Donna Tartt (P)2010 Penguin Audio

THE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch 'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all goin...

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24 reviews
Milla Dyer
March 1, 2023
haunting. every sentence in this book could be a quote.
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Yulia T.
June 24, 2025
I think the book would have benefited from a different narrator.
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Eli Sophie Groeggen
December 24, 2024
The audio knocks this up from a 4 to a 5 stars for me.
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About the author

Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages, and The Goldfinch.

Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages, and The Goldfinch.

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