Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of The Secret History

The Secret History
The Secret History
Author: Donna Tartt
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
peapod avatar reviewed on + 35 more book reviews


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.