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The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 1992

608 pages

Richard Papen leaves California for an elite Vermont college and is drawn into a tight circle of classics students taught by a charismatic professor. Accepted among them, he becomes part of a murder committed before the story begins, and of the slow unravelling that follows.

Tropes

Dark Academia, Unreliable Narrator, Morally Grey Character, Betrayal, Melancholic, Found Family

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