The Secret History - Donna Tartt

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.

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Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages.