Picnic At Hanging Rock: Australian Children's Classics by Joan Lindsay (9780143202721)

Description - Picnic At Hanging Rock: Australian Children's Classics by Joan Lindsay

While Joan Lindsay's haunting Australian classic Picnic at Hanging Rock is a work of fiction, the story is often considered one of Australia's greatest mysteries.

In 1900, a class of young women from an exclusive private school go on an excursion to the isolated Hanging Rock, deep in the Australian bush. The excursion ends in tragedy when three girls and a teacher mysteriously vanish after climbing the rock. Only one girl returns, with no memory of what has become of the others . . .

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Book Details

ISBN: 9780143202721
ISBN-10: 0143202723

Classification:
Fiction & related items »
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Format: Paperback / softback
(179mm x 111mm x 14mm)
Pages: 192
Imprint: Penguin Books Australia
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
Publish Date: 29-Jun-2009
Country of Publication: Australia

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Hardback
(March 2013)

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Author Biography - Joan Lindsay

Joan Lindsay was born in Melbourne, where she went to school as a day-girl for a few years at Clyde Girls' Grammar, then situated in East St Kilda. She knew and loved the Macedon district from early childhood. In 1922 she married Sir Daryl Lindsay in London. The Lindsays travelled together in Europe and the USA, Daryl with his paints and Joan with her typewriter. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967) is her best-remembered book and was filmed by Peter Weir in 1975. Sir Daryl died in 1976. Joan lived at their country home on the Mornington Peninsula, Mulberry Hill, Victoria until her death in December 1984.

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