The Secret History

Under 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 last - inexorably - into evil.

Set in

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  Bennington, Vermont · United States

  elite college campus murder plot
  ★ primary
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  Rome, Italy · Italy

  Henry and Bunny's tense winter-break trip to Rome, pivotal to the plot's unraveling
  ★ primary
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  San Jose, California · United States

  Richard Papen's hometown, the working-class California origin he flees and reinvents his past to escape
  ★ primary
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  Connecticut · United States

  The Corcoran family home, where Bunny's wake and funeral take place
  ★ primary