The Secret History

Uncorrected Advance Proof. Royal 8vo. Pp. [x], 524. Pictorial wraps.

Signed by Tartt to title-page.

Author's literary debut. A New York Times Notable Book. Richard Papen, an impoverished student at a New England college, falls in with an exclusive clique of rich, worldly Greek scholars and soon learns the dreadful secret that binds them together. A publishing sensation at the time and a subsequent cult classic. Followed in 2002 by The Little Friend and The Goldfinch in 2013, the latter of which won Tartt the Pulitzer Prize. "A smart, craftsman-like, viscerally compelling novel." –TIME