The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable.
Call Number: PS3570.A657 S4
ISBN: 9781400031702
Publication Date: 2004-04-13
The list below are books that Donna Tartt, '86 said were important her to when she wrote The Secret History .
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde
Call Number: Course Books PR5485 .A1 1991
ISBN: 9780486266886
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
Le Grand Meaulnes is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the first month of World War I. The novel, published in 1913, a year before the author's death, is somewhat autobiographical, especially the name of the heroine Yvonne, for whom he had a doomed infatuation in Paris
Call Number: PQ2611.O85 G713 2007
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The novel is written in the voice of eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood, who lives with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle on an estate. Six years before the events of the novel, the Blackwood family experienced a tragedy that left the three survivors isolated from their small village. Merricat practices sympathetic magic that maintains borders around the house in order to keep her family out of harm's way. This Gothic mystery was written by Jackson while she lived in North Bennington.
Call Number: PS3519.A392 W4 2021
ISBN: 9780143134831
Publication Date: 2021-02-23
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Tom Ripley, sent to Italy to coax American playboy Dickie Greenleaf to return home, decides instead that he wants to be exactly like Greenleaf and will stop at nothing to reach his goal.
Call Number: PS3558.I366 T33 1992
ISBN: 9780679742296
Baccha by Euripedes, particularly the Lattimore edition
Greek Tragedies, Volume 3 by David Grene (Editor); Richmond Lattimore (Editor)
The Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies
Call Number: PA3626.A2 G7 1991 v.3
ISBN: 9780226307916
Phaedrus and Apology by Plato
Plato's Phaedrus: a translation with notes by Plató; Steven Scully (Editor); Alexander Nehamas (Translator); Paul Woodruff (Translator)Call Number: B380.A5 S38 2003
ISBN: 9780941051545
Publication Date: 2003-05-01
Plato: Euthyphro ; Apology ; Crito ; Phaedo, the Death Scene by F. ChurchCall Number: B358 .C48 1948
ISBN: 9780023224102
Publication Date: 1956-01-01
Also, the works of George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, the novels of Vladimir Nabokov and Cold Heaven by Brian Moore.