The Secret History is the first novel by the American author Donna Tartt, published by Alfred A. Knopf in September 1992. A campus novel, it tells the story of a closely knit group of six Classics students at Hampden College, a small, elite liberal arts college in Vermont.
The Secret History was published in 1992 and became an instant best seller, making Tartt a literary phenomenon. So why did it never become a movie?
Thirty years since it was first published, Donna Tartt's debut novel The Secret History continues to enthral new generations of readers, writes Clare Thorp.
The Secret History is a wonderfully beguiling book, a journey backward to the fierce and heady friendships of our school days, when all of us believed in our power to conjure up divinity and to be forgiven any sin."
Donna Tartt’s classic novel, “The Secret History,” is bloated and disrespectful and you should stop recommending it to people
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Author Donna Tartt’s debut novel, The Secret History, became an instant classic—and an instant success—when it was published in 1992. “Book publishers, moviemakers, and glossy magazines ...
The Secret History is a murder mystery novel by Donna Tartt that was published in 1992. Her first novel, it has sold millions of copies and been widely published.
The Secret History For Bret Easton Ellis, whose generosity will never cease to warm my heart; and for Paul Edward Mc Gloin, muse and Maecenas, who is the dearest friend will ever have in this world. I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: