The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Published by Viking Penguin in 1992. Hardcover 528 pages ISBN:9780670843657. This modern-day Greek tragedy relates of the life of a close-knit group of students of Classical Literature to whom the story narrator belongs at an elite New England college developing under the influence of their charismatic professor a mindset and lifestyle that is worlds apart from the existence of their contemporaries. Trespassing the boundaries of established morality their lives change profoundly as they try to conceal the barely justifiable by virtue of their belief in their elitarianism murder of a representative of their philosophical nemesis that they committed in trance-like condition as they are being blackmailed by the story narrator and being subjected to the intricate means of their apostate's extortion and subtle exploitation. Viking's third printing of the true first English edition because it is the First Edition that was published in Britain and not the first edition in English that was published in the US a month earlier by Alfred A. Knopf that is also a subsidiary of the Penguin Random House publishing group. The author's intriguing seminal debut novel is a remarkable literary achievement that is both compelling and elegant, dramatic and frivolous that became an immediate success and casused the author's breakthrough, it has since then been credited with originating and popularizing the Dark Academia movement. Binding tight and hinges intact, navy cloth over board with titles in gilt to spine, clean copy without annotations, insciptions or marks, edges with a slight trace of shelfwear and some indistinct disperse foxing, dust jacket unclipped with very light edgewear, a exceptionallly well-preserved copy of one of the rare real works of literature of the last decades. Collectible item in very fine condition.