Author: Donna Tartt
Published: 1992
Pages: 559
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In The Secret History, a group of elite college students, led by an enigmatic professor, become entangled in a web of intellectual obsession, secrecy, and moral corruption. As they push the boundaries of their academic pursuits, they find themselves drawn into a dangerous game with deadly consequences, unraveling the very fabric of their lives in a tale of ambition, guilt, and betrayal.
Complexity
CEFR: C1
Plot Complexity: rich
Language Complexity: rich
Ideas Complexity: rich
Blurb
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last—inexorably—into evil.
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