Fiction
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
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Donna Tartt's debut novel follows a tight-knit group of classics students at an elite Vermont college whose fascination with beauty, exclusivity, and Dionysian ritual leads them to murder one of their own — a 'whydunit' that examines the moral cost of aesthetic obsession.
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