The Secret History: A Novel [Hardcover]

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 Years

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.

“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —The New York Times A beautifully written story, well-told, funny, sad, scary, and impossible to leave alone until I finished. . . . What a debut! --John Grisham

Powerful . . . Enthralling . . . A ferociously well-paced entertainment. --The New York Times

An accomplished psychological thriller . . . Absolutely chilling . . . Tartt has a stunning command of the lyrical. -- The Village Voice

A smart, craftsman-like, viscerally compelling novel. --Time

A thinking-person's thriller . . . Think Lord of the Flies, then The Rules of Attraction. . . . The Secret History combines a bit of both--the unmistakable whiff of evil from William Golding's classilÓ|