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The Secret History

Donna Tartt · Literary Fiction · 628 pages

64 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

dark academiafound familymorally grey charactertwist ending
dark academiapsychological thriller
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

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About this book

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. Originally published: New York: Knopf; London: Viking, 1992.

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