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Fiction · Campus novel

The Secret History

Donna Tartt
1992 · 557 pages

At a Vermont college a transfer student joins five classics majors and their charismatic tutor, then learns their rite to Dionysus left a farmer dead. Dark academia has been rewriting it since.

★ 6.4