The Secret History - English Book Club Course - Tuesdays from 9th September

Description

Highlights

Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week English book club course using The Secret History, by Donna Tartt. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book

This book is a modern classic - one of the finest books written in the last 50 years. Donna Tartt went on to write the best-selling "The Goldfinch" but this was her debut novel that shook the literary world with its brilliance in 1992. It is a "dark academia" genre - about a group of super clever university students and their classics professor at a New England university college. The book opens with a murder and as we read we discover how the group of friends bonded at college and what happened next. It is brilliantly narrated by liberal Richard Papen who describes the excitement of new and challenging friends and ideas. But the search for a life away from the mundane leads them to new and dangerous thoughts.

"A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction" The Times

'Irresistible and seductive' Guardian

'Enthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled' New York Times

Geoff says:

"This is one of my favourite books and I can't wait to read it again! It is brilliantly written, with a gripping, powerful narrative. An absolute must-read book by this Pulitzer Prize winning author."