Picnic at Hanging Rock

by Joan Lindsay

This 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.

• ISBN10: 0899665608
• ISBN13: 9780899665603
• Publish Date: 31 December 1986 (first published 31 May 1975)
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Buccaneer Books Inc
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 212
• Language: English

Reviews

[pamela]

This is my fourth time reading Joan Lindsay's wonderful Picnic at Hanging Rock. It never ceases to amaze me.

Lyndsay perfectly captures the Australian landscape as a character in its own right, cunningly walking the tightrope between modern Australia and British colonialism.

It's mysterious, abstract, whimsical, dark, and beautiful. A perfect work of Australian literature. It makes me more than a little homesick every time I read it.