The Secret History by Donna Tartt Material:Hard Cover she hopes she might be

she hopes she might be allowed to choose a husband for herself

taking away her one great talent

Making her mine would break every code of honor and defy all common sense

and women weren’t happy with it

But none of this is what she'd planned for

The Secret History by Donna Tartt Material:Hard Cover she hopes she might beUnder 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 lastinexorablyinto evil.