Tartt, Donna (1963)
TARTT, DONNA (1963)
The secret history. 1992 (4th printing)
The secret history. 1992 (6th printing) [sold-verkocht]
TARTT, DONNA (1963)
The Secret History
Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1992. First Edition. Fourth printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Illustrated boards. Price-unclipped printed glassine dustjacket.[xiv] 524 pp. 14¾ x 24¼ x 3½ cm. 796 gr. ISBN-13 978 0 679 41032 5. Elite life of an elite New England college with its play of emotions and ideas, a novel of psychological suspense. 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 their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. 'The Secret History succeeds magnificently. . . . A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment. . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.' - The New York Times 'An accomplished psychological thriller. . . . Absolutely chilling. . . . Tartt has a stunning command of the lyrical.' - The Village Voice 'Beautifully written, suspenseful from start to finish.' - Vogue 'A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction. . . . Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth.' - The Times (London) 'Her writing bewitches us. . . . The Secret History is a wonderfully beguiling book, a journey backward to the fierce and heady friendships of our school days, when all of us believed in our power to conjure up divinity and to be forgiven any sin.' - The Philadephia Inquirer 'Enthralling. . . . A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment. . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.' - The New York Times Book Review A very good copy of Donna Tartt's bestselling debut novel. Former owner's name and date on front endpaper. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Fine bright looks unread hardcover in near fine clear jacket with minor rubbing.
Booknumber: 23714
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TARTT, DONNA (1963)
The Secret History
Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1992. First Edition. Sixth printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Illustrated boards. Price-unclipped printed glassine dustjacket.[xiv] 524 pp. 14¾ x 24¼ x 3½ cm. 796 gr. ISBN-13 978 0 679 41032 5. Elite life of an elite New England college with its play of emotions and ideas, a novel of psychological suspense. 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 their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. 'The Secret History succeeds magnificently. . . . A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment. . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.' - The New York Times 'An accomplished psychological thriller. . . . Absolutely chilling. . . . Tartt has a stunning command of the lyrical.' - The Village Voice 'Beautifully written, suspenseful from start to finish.' - Vogue 'A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction. . . . Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth.' - The Times (London) 'Her writing bewitches us. . . . The Secret History is a wonderfully beguiling book, a journey backward to the fierce and heady friendships of our school days, when all of us believed in our power to conjure up divinity and to be forgiven any sin.' - The Philadephia Inquirer 'Enthralling. . . . A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment. . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.' - The New York Times Book Review Pages are clean with no markings in text. Fine bright looks unread hardcover in fine clear jacket with minor rubbing. A very good copy of Donna Tartt's bestselling debut novel.
Booknumber: 23715
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