Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay ; foreword by Maile Meloy
Contributors: Meloy, Maile, writer of foreword
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780143132059
Subjects: Picnic grounds; Missing persons; Investigation; Fiction; Women college students
Description: "A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film--featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed 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 intrigue"--
Notes: Originally published: Melbourne, Australia : F.W. Cheshire, 1967. With a new forword.