The Secret History. 30th Anniversary Edition

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THE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGE<BR><BR>With cloth binding and bespoke marbled endpapers, this gorgeous 30th-anniversary hardback edition of The Secret History is the perfect gift for fans! <BR><BR>'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 together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!'<BR><BR>Under 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.<BR><BR>'Haunting, compelling and brilliant' The Times<BR><BR>'Irresistible and seductive' Guardian<BR><BR>'Enthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled' New York Times

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