Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Lindsay Sullivan

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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Donna Tartt reputedly received a $450,000 advance for The Secret History. In addition to being a commercial success, the novel has been translated into over twenty languages and has received much critical acclaim. One of the novel’s epigraphs is from Book 2 of Plato’s Republic: “Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes”. Part murder mystery, part Bildungsroman and part campus novel, The Secret History tells the story of a group of Classics students who, in the act of re-creating a Dionysian bacchanal, accidentally kill a stranger, and then, to cover their tracks and preserve their freedom, murder one of their own group. The...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Literary Encyclopedia
Subtitle of host publication	American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present
Editors	Emory Elliott, Dale Enggass, Christopher Hugh Gair, Mathew Hofer, Stephen E. Meats, Kerry Myler, Justin Parks, Nick Selby
Volume	3.2.4
Publication status	Published - May 2005

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Citation: Sullivan, Lindsay. "The Secret History". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 May 2005

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Donna Tartt, The Secret History. / Sullivan, Lindsay.
Literary Encyclopedia: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present. ed. / Emory Elliott; Dale Enggass; Christopher Hugh Gair; Mathew Hofer; Stephen E. Meats; Kerry Myler; Justin Parks; Nick Selby. Vol. 3.2.4 2005.

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