Richard Papen, the story's First-Person Peripheral Narrator, a transfer student who, through a series of chance encounters, finds himself in the midst of this strange, mesmerizing group.Bunny Corcoran, genteel, cheerful and bigoted.Francis Abernathy, who looks like a cross between a student prince and Jack the Ripper.Charles and Camilla Macaulay, the friendly, enigmatic twins.Henry Winter, the linguistic genius who declares that six men could capture the town of Hampden.The six students whom he accepts into his classes receive an education apart from any other at the college: in studying Latin and Greek, they mimic an ancient Athenian way of thinking and living. "I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?" So says Julian Morrow, the charismatic and eccentric Classics professor at Hampden College. The Secret History was Donna Tartt's immensely successful first novel, released in 1992.
"Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry.
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