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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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Picnic at Hanging Rock Paperback - 2014

by Joan Lindsay


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The classic novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned. . . . Mysterious and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A beguiling landmark of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of haunting intrigue.

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  • Title Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • Author Joan Lindsay
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 196
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group
  • Date 2014-05
  • ISBN 9780143126782 / 0143126784
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.81 x 5.05 x 0.39 in (19.84 x 12.83 x 0.99 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1140
  • Library of Congress subjects Horror fiction, Girls - Recreation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014007767
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Joan Lindsay was born Joan Beckett Weigall in Melbourne, Australia, in 1896. She attended Clyde Girls Grammar School, the model for Appleyard College in Picnic at Hanging Rock, and the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, where she studied painting. On Valentine's Day 1922 she married Daryl Lindsay in London. She chose Valentine's Day 1900 as the setting for Picnic at Hanging Rock, her best-known work, which was first published in 1967 and is the basis for the 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. She died in Melbourne in 1984.
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