Picnic At Hanging Rock

Informationen zum Autor Joan Lindsay Klappentext 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. Appleyard College, the setting oh her most famous novel Picnic at Hanging Rock , was to some extent based on Clyde Girls' Grammar School. From 1916 to 1919, Joan studied painting at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne and exhibited numerous of her watercolor and oil paintings. On Valentine¿s Day 1922 she married Daryl Lindsay in London. When her husband was knighted in 1956 and Joan became Lady Lindsay. The Lindsays travelled together in Europe and the USA, Daryl with his paints and Joan with her typewriter. She contributed articles, reviews and stories to various magazines and newspapers on art. She died in December 1984. Zusammenfassung Read this fantastic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls. 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Joan Lindsay, Lindsay Joan
• Edition: Vintage UK
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 07.02.2013
• Catégorie: Littérature > Littérature (récits)
• EAN: 9780099577140
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957714-0
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Dimensions (emballage): 12,9 x 19,8 x 1,3 cm
• Thème: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• Catégories: Mystery, classic, Outback, Thriller, Melbourne, FICTION / Classics, Australia, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), College, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, mystery thriller, Historical, Thriller / suspense, Psychological thriller, Boarding School, Classic fiction, Australian, Literary fiction, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Classic fiction: general and literary, Crime Fiction, The Virgin Suicides, Victorian era, crime thriller, contemporary fiction, vintage classics, between the covers bbc, a single thread, lord of the flies william golding, Gone Girl Gillian Flynn, English Literature gcse