Donna Tarttās 1992 novel The Secret History is a murder mystery that follows Richard Papen, a college student from California, as he becomes enmeshed in a group of classics students at Hampden College, the small, exclusive school that he attends in Vermont. The friends attempt to re-create a bacchanal to honor Dionysus, leading to one characterās death and the groupās eventual splintering.
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