The Secret History
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  • Published: 28 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141042077
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

The Secret History

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch

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Paperback
3 Oct 2002
Hardback
29 Nov 2022
Audiobook
28 Aug 2010
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The dark academia bestseller that defined an age

Penguin Audiobooks presents Donna Tartt's cult thriller The Secret History, unabridged, downloadable and read by the author herself.

A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them. And soon they enter a terrifying heart of darkness from which they may never return ...

The smartest murder-mystery you will ever hear
  • Published: 28 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141042077
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt was educated at the University of Mississippi and Bennington College, and is the author of a second novel, The Little Friend. She lives in Mississippi and New York City.

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