# The Secret History

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- Book: [The Secret History](https://www.bookquiver.com/donna-tartt/the-secret-history) ([The Secret History.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/donna-tartt/the-secret-history.md))
- Authors: [Donna Tartt](https://www.bookquiver.com/donna-tartt)
- Publisher: Viking
- ISBN: 978-02-4162-190-5
- Pages: 640
- Published: 2022-09-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

'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 was all going to come together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!' 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.