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Picnic at hanging rock

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.

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  • "Picnic at Hanging Rock"@pl
  • "Picnic at Hanging Rock"@it

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  • "On Saint Valentine's Day 1900, a party of twenty schoolgirls and two governesses set out from Appleyard College for a picnic at Hanging Rock. One of the governesses and three of the girls disappeared during the afternoon. Only one of them was ever seen again."
  • "On St Valentine's day in 1900, a party of Australian schoolgirls set off with two schoolmistresses on a picnic to a place called Hanging Rock. Some were never to return. What began as a pleasant and happy day out ended in terror--Novelist."
  • "" 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. Haunting, mysterious, and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A beguiling masterpiece of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca as a masterpiece of otherworldly intrigue"--"
  • "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."@en
  • "On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirs went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return."@en
  • "'Don't worry about us, Mam'selle dear,' smiled Miranda. 'We shall only be gone a very little while.' But they weren't. By turns eerie, haunting and thrilling, Joan Lindsy's story of vanishing schoolgirls is one of Australia's greatest mysteries. Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our country's most memorable children's books in the Penguin Australia Children's Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind."
  • "In 1900, a class of young women from an exclusive private school go on an excursion to the isolated Hanging Rock, deep in the Australian bush. The excursion ends in tragedy when three girls and a teacher mysteriously vanish after climbing the rock. Only one girl returns, with no memory of what has become of the others ..."
  • ""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."--Provided by publisher."@en
  • "St. Valentine's day 1900 and a party of schoolgirls go for a picnic at Hanging Rock, some never return.; This title is also available as a film."@en
  • "On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return."@en

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  • "Juvenile works"
  • "History"@en
  • "Horror tales"@en
  • "History"
  • "Horror fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Detective and mystery stories, Australian"
  • "Thriller"@en
  • "Classic"
  • "Horror stories"@en
  • "Classical fiction"
  • "Roman australien"@en
  • "Roman australien"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Powieść australijska"@pl
  • "Powieść australijska"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en

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  • "Picnic at hanging rock : a novel"
  • "Picknick am Valentinstag : roman"
  • "Picknick am Valentinstag : Roman"
  • "Piknik pod Wiszącą Skałą"@pl
  • "Piknik pod Wiszącą Skałą"
  • "Picnic at hanging rock"
  • "Picnic at hanging rock"@en
  • "Picnic ad Hanging Rock"
  • "Picknick am Valentinstag Roman"
  • "Picnic en Hanging Rock"@es
  • "Picnic en Hanging Rock"
  • "Picnic at Hanging Rock"@it
  • "Picnic at Hanging Rock"@en
  • "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
  • "Picnik pod wiszaca skała"
  • "Picnic a Hanging Rock"@it
  • "Picnic a Hanging Rock"
  • "Piknik pri Hanging Rocku"@sl
  • "Piknik pri Hanging Rocku"
  • "PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK"

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