They never let an emotion taint their mien. Though they love classics and they are scholars of Latin and Ancient Greek, they are also rich, and dazzling, able to conceal their true thoughts and look proper at all times. He is quickly taken by them for all their similarities and differences. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.” Donna Tartt’s The Secret History relates the story of a young man from California, Richard Pappen, who is admitted to Hamden University, a private New England college, on a student loan scholarship where he meets five wealthy students (Henry, the occasionally incestuous twins Camilla and Charles, Francis, and Bunny). Copyright © Vogue.Ĭhapter 1 of The Secret History begins with a thump, dynamically, boisterously: “Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that snowy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t.
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