Saltar al contenido principal
The Secret History

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.'A haunting, compelling and brilliant piece of fiction' The Times'So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure' GuardianUnder the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group...

Publisher:
Penguin
Year of publication:
1993
ISBN:
978-0-14-016777-1
Pages:
659
13,75 €
IVA included
Available
Añadir a favoritos

Synopsis

Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.'A haunting, compelling and brilliant piece of fiction' The Times'So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure' GuardianUnder 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 for ever.'Enthralling . . . image the plot of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment crossed with the story of Euripides' Bacchae set against the backdrop of Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction . . . forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled . . . ferociously well-paced . . . remarkably powerful' The New York Times'Donna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense, she's allusive. She's a gorgeous storyteller' Stephen KingDonna 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.

Related Articles

Truth Like Water

Truth Like Water

Carys Shannon

In a small estuary village on the Welsh coast, Catrin is mourning the anniversary of her mother's drowning when a teenage girl disappears on the same mudflats. Terrified of history repeating itself and driven by unresolved grief, Catrin becomes obsessed with finding Emily. Her search dredges up secrets from the village's past and present, uncovering far more than the missing gi...

Available

15,00 €

A Private Man

A Private Man

Stephanie Sy-Quia

His grandfather had been a Catholic priest. A story in seven words, and his life the unsolved mystery.Rome, 1953. David is young, handsome, charismatic, and sworn to celibacy. He is freshly ordained, and about to return to England to begin life as a priest. Devotion to God is all he's ever known, and all he thinks he ever will.In London, Margaret is entangled in an impossible l...

Available

21,25 €

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

Alice Evelyn Yang

A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate. Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disa...

Low stock

14,99 €

Hot Chocolate On Thursday

Hot Chocolate On Thursday

Michiko Aoyama

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING ORIGINAL HEALING AUTHOR _________________ Much-loved modern classic by the author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD Readers love HOT CHOCOLATE ON THURSDAY: 'Slipped into my heart and warmed me, just like a cup of cocoa' ***** 'I definitely recommend this book!' ***** 'Thursday is the b...

Available

18,75 €

Blurred Faces

Blurred Faces

Allan Radcliffe

' I mean, it' s nothing really. An old face from the past.' Two men meet on a dating app. It' s supposed to be a casual encounter between strangers. Jordan is only back in Edinburgh to visit his complicated family, and Davie is reeling from a painful breakup. Yet Davie recognises Jordan as someone he knew long ago, when they were both closeted teenagers at the same school. Back...

Low stock

13,75 €

Money To Burn

Money To Burn

Asta Olivia Nordenhof

A groundbreaking, profound and intimate novel about capitalism's effects on the human heart: Money to Burn is the first volume of the Scandinavian Star series, a new masterpiece of Danish literature *Guardian best translated fiction of 2025* 'Buzzes with electricity... intriguing, maddening, exciting. I'm in' Observer 'Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out' Guardia...

Low stock

12,50 €

Other books by the author

The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that ...

Low stock

16,25 €

The Little Friend

The Little Friend

Donna Tartt

Harriet grows up haunted by the murder of her brother. His killer was never identified. Harriet lives largely in the world of her imagination, alone even in company. Then one day she decides to find his murderer and exact her revenge. ...

Low stock

13,75 €

The Secret History

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

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 YearsUnder ...

Low stock

16,25 €

The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[Bokinfo]. ...

No stock. Please check price

31,25 €

The Secret History

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

THE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGE With cloth binding and bespoke marbled endpapers, this gorgeous 30th-anniversary hardback edition of The Secret History is the perfect gift for fans! '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...

No stock. Please check price

25,00 €