El dia de sant Valentí del 1900, les alumnes de l’exclusiva escola femenina Appleyard es preparen per sortir a fer un pícnic a Hanging Rock, una imponent formació rocosa enmig de la feréstega natura

Joan Lindsay, Barry PatemanThis volume is part of a series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing, often compiled by the author.

I know youre there Miranda? Miranda!On a summers day in 1900, three Australian schoolgirls on a picnic expedition to the remote Hanging Rock abscond from their group. They are last seen heading towards the beckoning RockIn Tom Wrights chilling adaptation of Joan Lindsays classic novel, five performers struggle to solve the mystery of the missing girls and their teacher. Euphoria and terror reverberate throughout the community, as the potential for history to repeat itself becomes nightmarishly real.This adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock was first co-produced by Malthouse Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre Company, Perth, and first performed at Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, in 2016. The play received its European premiere at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, in 2017.

On Saint Valentine`s day,1900.a party of ninteen girls accompanied by two schoolmistresses sets off from a fashionable College for Young Ladies for a day`s outing at the spectacular volcanic mass called Hanging Rock. What begins as a pleasant and happy day out ends in inexplicable terror. The sinister implications of the events cannot be ignored,and Joan Lindsay traces the effects of this mysterious incident on the lives of the people involved.

**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**A sinister taleGuardianThe classic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls.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 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.Is Picnic at Hanging Rock fact or fiction? Only you can truly decide.

*Now a six-part TV series starring Natalie Dormer, from Amazon Prime*A 50th-anniversary edition of the landmark novel about three gone girls that inspired the acclaimed 1975 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 Jacksons We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Mauriers Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue.

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.

On St. Valentine''s day in 1900, the boarders at Mrs. Appleyard''s College for Young Ladies go on their annual picinic to Hanging Rock, in the Australian bush, where four of them disappear

Febrero de 1900. Un grupo de alumnas del selecto colegio Appleyard para señoritas se dispone a celebrar un picnic el día de San Valentín. Lo que empieza siendo una inocente comida campestre se torna en tragedia cuando tres niñas y una profesora desaparecen misteriosamente entre los recovecos de Hanging Rock, un imponente conjunto de rocas rodeado de la salvaje y asfixiante vegetacion australiana. La unica chica que logra regresar, presa de la histeria, no recuerda nada de lo sucedido. Considerada una de las mas desazonantes novelas de culto de la literatura anglosajona, Picnic en Hanging Rock dio lugar a una aclamadisima pelicula de Peter Weir, que contribuyo a incrementar el exito de una obra ya mitica. Jamas se revelo si los hechos narrados fueron reales o no, y ese ambiguo e intrigante juego alento la aparicion de una legion de seguidores que afirmaban conocer lo ocurrido aquel aciago dia de San Valentin en el sobrecogedor paisaje de Hanging Rock.

Lo que empieza siendo una inocente comida campestre se torna en tragedia cuando tres niñas y una profesora desaparecen misteriosamente entre los recovecos de Hanging Rock, un imponente conjunto de rocas rodeado de la salvaje y asfixiante vegetacion australiana. La unica chica que logra regresar, presa de la histeria, no recuerda nada de lo sucedido. Considerada una de las mas desazonantes novelas de culto de la literatura anglosajona, Picnic en Hanging Rock dio lugar a una aclamadisima pelicula de Peter Weir, que contribuyo a incrementar el exito de una obra ya mitica. Jamas se revelo si los hechos narrados fueron reales o no, y ese ambiguo e intrigante juego alento la aparicion de una legion de seguidores que afirmaban conocer lo ocurrido aquel aciago dia de San Valentin en el sobrecogedor paisaje de Hanging Rock.

14 février 1900, Australie. L’été touche à sa fin. Les jeunes pensionnaires de Mrs Appleyard attendent depuis des mois ce pique-nique annuel, non loin de Hanging Rock. Revêtues de leurs mousselines l