The secret history

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  College students,  Teacher-student relationships,  Classicists,  Murder,  Murderers,  Detective and mystery stories,  Fiction, psychological,  College teachers, fiction,  Vermont, fiction,  American literature,  Richard Papen (Fictitious character),  College stories,  Psychological fiction,  nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2013-12-01,  New York Times bestseller,  Estudiantes universitarios,  Novela,  Asesinato,  General,  Spanish language materials,  Materiales en español,  Étudiants,  Romans, nouvelles,  Spécialistes de lettres classiques,  Meurtriers,  Roman policier,  Relations maitres-eleves,  Meurtre,  Etudiants

People: Richard Papen,  Henry Winter,  Bunny Corcoran,  Francis Abernathy,  Charles Macaulay,  Camilla Macaulay,  Julian Morrow

Places: Vermont

Times: 1982