Picnic At Hanging Rock Book Cover

In the heat of the afternoon sun three girls climb through the scrub and disappear ethereal.

Picnic at hanging rock book cover. Picnic at hanging rock by joan lindsay. There is no forward no bibliography no pictures from the series no introduction. Picnic at hanging rock novel this part will examine each chapter of the book noting the major events and at times i ll add a comment in on what happened. In many ways the book isn t really about that.

No surprise there picnic scheduled for valentine s day 1900. It s about loss and yearning and change about being aware that youth beauty and happiness are transient states. There is absolutely nothing about the amazon series. Picnic at hanging rock is set in australia in 1900 and centres on the disappearance of three schoolgirls and a teacher during a picnic at the titular rock.

The mystery is nebulous and open ended. Picnic at hanging rock represents the confluence of several literary and ideological influences in which joan lindsay was interested throughout her career as a writer and painter. If her terrified cries had been heard by anyone but a wallaby squatting in a clump of bracken a few feet away the picnic at hanging rock might yet have been just another picnic on a summer s day on a cloudless summer day in 1900 a group from appleyard college for young ladies goes for a picnic. It looks like it would tie in to the amazon series with the the cover showing three of the characters from the amazon series.

The novel was first published in 1967 in australia by cheshire publishing and was. Click to read more about covers. Picnic at hanging rock by lindsay joan seller john w. Chapter 1 the girls exchange valentine day cards miss appleyard doens t get any cards.

Knott jr bookseller abaa ilab published 1967 condition mild spotting to edges previous owner signature and address in ink to upper corner of title page a very good copy in a very go edition first edition item price. Yet it is nothing but a re printing of the original picnic at hanging rock story. Picnic at hanging rock is an australian historical fiction novel by joan lindsay set in 1900 it is about a group of female students at an australian girls boarding school who vanish at hanging rock while on a valentine s day picnic and the effects the disappearances have on the school and local community.