The Resource The secret history, Donna Tartt
The secret history, Donna Tartt
Resource Information
The item The secret history, Donna Tartt represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The secret history, Donna Tartt represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last -- inexorably -- into evil." -- Back cover
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Extent
- 559 pages
- Isbn
- 9781400031702
- Label
- The secret history
- Title
- The secret history
- Statement of responsibility
- Donna Tartt
- Subject
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- trueIntellectuals
- College stories
- trueCollege teachers
- trueCampus life
- trueLiterary fiction
- College students -- Fiction
- Murder -- Fiction
- Vermont -- Fiction
- trueSuicide
- Murderers -- Fiction
- trueResponsibility in men
- Classicists -- Fiction
- trueCollege students
- trueUniversities and colleges
- trueDeception
- truePsychological suspense
- Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- trueFriendship
- trueVermont
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueMurder
- trueCliques
- trueGuilt in men
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last -- inexorably -- into evil." -- Back cover
- Summary
- A transfer student from a small town in California, Richard Papen is determined to affect the ways of his Hampden College peers, and he begins his intense studies under the tutelage of eccentric Julian Morrow
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 058537
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tartt, Donna
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Teacher-student relationships
- College students
- Classicists
- Murder
- Murderers
- Vermont
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The secret history, Donna Tartt
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm55990486
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Extent
- 559 pages
- Isbn
- 9781400031702
- Lccn
- 2004271588
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)55990486
- Label
- The secret history, Donna Tartt
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm55990486
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Extent
- 559 pages
- Isbn
- 9781400031702
- Lccn
- 2004271588
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)55990486
Subject
- trueCampus life
- Classicists -- Fiction
- trueCliques
- College stories
- trueCollege students
- College students -- Fiction
- trueCollege teachers
- trueDeception
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueFriendship
- trueGuilt in men
- trueIntellectuals
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMurder
- Murder -- Fiction
- Murderers -- Fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- truePsychological suspense
- trueResponsibility in men
- trueSuicide
- Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction
- trueUniversities and colleges
- trueVermont
- Vermont -- Fiction
Genre
- College stories
- Fiction
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueLiterary fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- truePsychological suspense
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