On a cold night Richard wants to make a call in a phone box but he drops the coin. He feels very sorry for himself and he even wonders why he had to leave Plano.

Because it freezes like hell Richard gets ill. His bedroom is the attic and in the ceiling there is a big hole. Richard finds a job and a place to sleep in an old warehouse owned by the old hippie Leo. The others, except Richard, go home for the holidays. During the Christmas holidays, when the campus is closed, Henry even takes Bunny on a trip to Italy. She doesn't live there, the only inhabitant is the gardener.īunny's parents hardly give him any money so Henry, who is his best friend, pays a lot for him. In the weekends they move into a remote country house owned by Francis' aunt.

The five are good friends, Richard is accepted but although they involve him in everything, he feels he is not really a part of their group. Richard is the poorest, he has to work for Dr. The group now consists six students: Edmund Corcoran (Bunny), Camilla and Charles Macaulay (twins), Francis Abernathy, Henry Winter and Richard. They persuade Julian to let Richard join them. One day when Richard is in the library he helps the classics students solve a Greek grammatical problem. When he visits Julian he tells him he's sorry but he has to refuse Richard's request.

Richard, who has studied Greek for two years in high school, feels attracted to the group and wants to join them. He only allows a very select group of students in his class and he demands them to drop almost all their other subjects. Their teacher, Julian Morrow, is known as a strange teacher. The classics students are very peculiar characters who form a close formation. He passes his tests and starts studying Psychology.Ī the university there is a little group that studies classics. After some nagging his parents allow him to go there. Richard wants to leave Plano, therefore he fills in a registration form of a university in a little town called Hampden at the east coast of the USA. He hates his parents because they don't pay any attention to him. Richard Papen, the narrator, lives in a small town called Plano, California, USA. The narrator tells that he and some of his friends have killed someone named Bunny and that they got away with it, although there was a big police investigation. The book starts with a prologue in which the narrator tells what happened some years ago.

Julian morrow the secret history