The Secret History
Richard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars, all worldly, self-assured, and, at first glance, all highly unapproachable. As Richard is drawn into their inner circle, he learns a terrifying secret that binds...
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Richard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars, all worldly, self-assured, and, at first glance, all highly unapproachable. As Richard is drawn into their inner circle, he learns a terrifying secret that binds them to one another...a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brought to brutal life...and led to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning....
źródło okładki: Penguin Books Ltd., London (1 July 1993)
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Format: papier
ISBN:
0804111359
Publish date: lipiec 1993 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 628
Edition language: English
First off I have to say that reading a book that consisted primarily of a bunch of rich kids (almost all characters, not the main one) not wanting to own up to something terrible they did because who would that benefit was mind boggling to me. I just read most of the book feeling pretty much appalle...
This was not my cup of tea at all. Rather than a genuine tea brand it was a mix of several flavours (the pungent King flavour, the indulgent Fitzgerlad flavour, the blunt Franzen flavour, the rancid Rand flavour) and still it felt pretty tasteless. I am putting the cup down half empty, can’t stand t...
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