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| Original Title: | Picnic at Hanging Rock |
| ISBN: | 0099750619 (ISBN13: 9780099750611) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Australia |
Joan Lindsay
Paperback | Pages: 189 pages Rating: 3.71 | 13872 Users | 1510 Reviews
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| Title | : | Picnic at Hanging Rock |
| Author | : | Joan Lindsay |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 189 pages |
| Published | : | July 2nd 1998 by Vintage (first published 1967) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Australia |
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It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred.Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Further, higher, till at last they disappeared.
They never returned.
Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction the reader must decide for themselves.
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Ratings: 3.71 From 13872 Users | 1510 ReviewsWrite-Up Of Books Picnic at Hanging Rock
I did enjoy this Australian classic, but not as much as I expected. It started really good and interesting as it quickly opened with a mystery. It's set in a boarding school, and on a summer day, the class go to Hanging Rock for a picnic. 4 girls and 1 teacher wonder around separated from the rest of the class. Only one student makes her way back, and the rest get lost. The rest of the book is digging into the events, relationships, etc to resolve the mystery. The book kept me wondering whatAustralian classic which I probably wouldn't have picked up other than I was short of an audio cd for the car. The added bonus to these Abc Australia productions, is the pan flute music that is borrowed from the movie version. It is pretty music that adds to the flavour of the time of the year 1900. The narrator was outstanding, Australian actress Jacqueline Mackenzie portrayed the Aussie flavour perfectly, her male voices were entertaining and real.The story of a group of girls never to be seen
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay is a sinister tale that had me at page one.I really enjoyed this novel and set in Austrailia in 1900." It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred, Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at hanging rock. After lunch, a group of threee girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun , pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of hanging Rock. Further, higher, unitl at last they
(William Ford: Hanging Rock)"It was exactly three oclock. There is no single instant on this spinning globe that is not, for millions of individuals, immeasurable by ordinary standards of time: a fragment of eternity forever unrelated to the calendar or the striking clock. For Albert Crundall, the brief conversation by the lake would inevitably be expanded, in memory, during his fairly long life, to fill the entire content of a summer afternoon."Die Zeit ist das vielleicht größte Mysterium.
The year is 1900, the girls at Appleyard College are all excited to be going for a day out to enjoy a picnic at Hanging Rock.After lunch , three of the senior boarders , Miranda, Irma and Marion decide to take a closer look at the rock , followed by Edith .In the blaze of the hot afternoon Australian sun , the girls climb higher and higher , until they disappear completely out of sight. They never return...This haunting tale published in 1967 is beautifully written by Joan Lindsay , who was born
Well, I'll admit, that I'm sitting here, rather perplexed, as to why this book is considered a classic. The book began well, it kept my attention and I was intrigued to learn what supposedly happened at this hanging rock. As the book continued, my yawns grew wider and longer, and really, I can definitely compare this book, to a homemade Yorkshire pudding, that failed to rise.There seemed to be many questions asked in this story, but very few answers were given. The story kind of went off track,
On a summer's day in 1900 the students at Appleyard College for Young Ladies decided to go on a picnic at Hanging Rock. Not everyone returned to the college. I was definitely not drinking the Kool Aid on this one. I am perhaps in the minority here, but I found this book to be B-O-R-I-N-G. The girls go missing early on and the story just dragged. Were there metaphysical events going on? Did they get sucked into the rock? Was there a criminal element? What happened? Also, what about the good
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