THE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGEWith cloth binding and bespoke marbled endpapers this gorgeous 30thanniversary hardback edition of The Secret History is the perfect gift for fans Everything somehow fit together some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery as though any morning it was all going to come togethermy future my past the whole of my lifeand I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh oh ohUnder the influence of a charismatic classics professor a group of clever eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path beyond human constructs of morality.Haunting compelling and brilliant The TimesIrresistible and seductive GuardianEnthralling... Forceful cerebral and impeccably controlled New York Times