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Knopf, 1992 Book. New. Hardcover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 0679410325 . Price clipped. ; 9.30 X 5.30 X 1.80 inches; 524 pages .

Hardcover. Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prizefor hermost recent novel, "The Goldfinch," established herself as a major talent with "The Secret" "History, " which has become acontemporary classic. 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. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. "From the Trade Paperback edition."" Storytelling in the grand manner, The Secret History is a debut remarkable for its hypnotic erudition and acute psychological suspense, and for the richness of its emotions, ideas, and language. These are the confessions, years afterward, of a young man who found at a small Vermont college the life of privilege and intellect he'd long coveted - and rarely has the glorious experience of youth infatuated with knowledge and with itself been so achingly realized. Then, amazed, Richard Papen is drawn into the ultimate inner circle: five students, worldly and self-assured, selected by a charismatic classics professor to participate in the search for truth and beauty. Together they study the mysteries of ancient Greek culture and spend long weekends at an old country house, reading, boating, basking in an Indian summer that stretches late into autumn. Mesmerized by his new comrades, Richard is unaware of the crime which they have committed in his dreamy, unwitting presence. But once taken into their confidence, he and the others slowly and inevitably begin to believe in the necessity of murdering the one classmate and friend who might betray both their secret and their future. Hugely ambitious and compulsively readable, this is a chronicle of deception and complicity, of Dionysian abandon, of innocence corrupted by self-love and moral arrogance; and, finally, it is a story of guilt and responsibility. An astonishing achievement by any standard, The Secret History immediately establishes Donna Tartt as a supremely gifted novelist. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

DONNA TARTT is the author of the novels The Secret History, The Little Friend, and The Goldfinch. Her work has been published in forty languages and her third novel, The Goldfinch, was awarded the Carnegie Medal and the Pulitzer Prize f.

524 pages. 9.50x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. An early book club edition of the author's acclaimed debut novel. In black boards and spine cloth with gilt to spine. Sharp corners, clean interior and solid binding. In paper jacket instead of clear plastic jacket used on the trade edition. Light edgewear.

9780679410324.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 576 p.

new york: alfred a. knopf, 1992. second paperback printing, 1992. new york: alfred a knopf. isbn: 0-679-41032-5. 524 pages. 5.5x9.2". softcover. bound in paper wrappers. book condition: mild shelfwear throughout. crease to head of front cover. fine-.