The Secret History

THE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGE. '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. '. 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. 'Haunting, compelling and brilliant' The Times. 'Irresistible and seductive' Guardian. 'Enthralling. Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled' New York Times.