The Bad Seed (P.S.)
Contributors: Elaine Showalter (Introduction)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: June 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780060795481
Subjects: 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; Fiction - Psychological Suspense; Fiction; Classics; Psychological; Thrillers; Fiction / Thrillers
First sentence: LATER THAT SUMMER, when Mrs. Penmark looked back and remembered, when she was caught up in despair so deep that she knew there was no way out, no solution whatever for the circumstances that encompassed her, it seemed to her that June seventh, the day of the Fern Grammar School picnic, was the day of her last happiness, for never since then had she known contentment or felt peace.