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Joan Weigall Lindsay
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 204 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed 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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
©1998
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls prepare for a picnic at Hanging Rock. They depart for their outing, and four of them disappear.
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen two-disc special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine's Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society.
