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The Bad Seed (1954)

de William March

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The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything-even murder. There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little Rhoda is around? Originally published in 1954, William March's final novel was an instant bestseller and National Book Award finalist before it was adapted for the stage and made into a 1956 film. The Bad Seed is an indelible portrait of an evil that wears an innocent face, one which still resonates in popular culture today.… (més)
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I had, of course, seen the 1956 movie, but had never realized that it was an adaptation of a novel published two years earlier. It's not unusual for horror movies to have been adapted from some fairly bad books, but I couldn't resist picking this up despite my low expectations.

I suppose the idea of an evil sociopath hiding under the veneer of a polite, neat, well-mannered little girl might have been shockingly novel in 1954, but it's been worn so threadbare in 2019 that I found myself paying more attention to the characters around little Rhoda than the child herself.

Not that Rhoda is uninteresting - she's entirely self-aware and surprisingly upfront about her true nature. She wants what she wants and does not tolerate anyone standing in her way. Her imitations of normal childish behavior are so stilted that it's incredible that hardly anyone sees through her. At least, people who are exposed to her long enough eventually conclude that she's a bully and a liar, but none seem willing or able to take the next logical step in connection with the injuries and death that seem to trail in her wake.

The story features a number of characters, all of whom are flawed and unlikeable in some way. Even the most sympathetic character, Rhoda's mother, is weak, whining, and ineffectual,
even when she finally tries to do something about her daughter
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I don't want to spoil the story beyond what would be impossible to not know about it for anyone who hasn't been living under a rock, so I'll say no more about the characters or plot. But the book is overall well written and interesting, if a bit dragging in places, and well worth the read.

Paperback version, with a short foreword by Anna Holmes, reflecting on the story from a modern feminist perspective. ( )
  Doodlebug34 | Jan 1, 2024 |
The first page is one whole paragraph, the writing is stunning, and highlights the fascination with psychology and Freud. The scariest part of this story is that it could easily be non-fiction, The psychological profiles of all characters are so powerfully depicted as to spawn many other stories. ( )
  ourBooksLuvUs | Aug 20, 2023 |
I've read many evil and/or psychotic child books. I've recently read a few new ones....We need to talk about Kevin and Baby teeth......and revisited a few old classics....The Omen and The bad seed. Little Rhoda Penmark is without a doubt the most disturbing of the bunch in my opinion.

William March setting this book in his hometown.....Mobile Alabama....makes this story seem close to home for me in an unsettling way.

It remains one of my favorite horror classics and I highly recommend it for anyone who loves horror, especiall evil child horror. ( )
  Jfranklin592262 | Aug 2, 2023 |
3.5 ✰ | ( )
  gabbxoo | Dec 18, 2022 |
This is a creepy little story about a psychotic child and the mother who is beside herself with the anxiety of what to do about her. The author March mistakenly created a character who inherited her grandmother's psychosis. William March had a talent for creating in-depth characters, such as the painfully frank Mrs Breedlove, the janitor Leroy, who is in love with the little girl Rhoda, the three eccentric sisters who run the private school, and, of course, Rhoda. Poor March had a sad childhood where he was deprived of familial love, causing the author himself to be emotionally warped. This probably helped his insight into warped and paranoid characters, but didn't help him any in living a happy life. ( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
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William Marchautor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
Kamp, Lawrence S.Autor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Kossin, SandyAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Showalter, ElaineIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat

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Later that summer, when Mrs. Penmark looked back and remembered, when she was caught up in despair so deep that she knew there was no way out, no solution whatever for the circumstances that encompassed her, it seemed to her that June seventh, the day of the Fern Grammar School picnic, was the day of her last happiness, for never since then had she known contentment or felt peace.
Nell'estate inoltrata, quando la signora Penmark, in preda a una disperazione così profonda da non avere via d'uscita alle circostanze che la opprimevano, si guardò indietro nel tempo, le parve che il sette giugno, giorno del picnic della scuola Fern, fosse l'ultimo della sua felicità, perche da allora non aveva provato mai più contentezza o pace.
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'Ik was de schuldige,' dacht ze weer. 'Ik droeg het zaad des verderfs.' (Utrecht/Antwerpen: A.W. Bruna & Zoon, p. 170)
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The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything-even murder. There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little Rhoda is around? Originally published in 1954, William March's final novel was an instant bestseller and National Book Award finalist before it was adapted for the stage and made into a 1956 film. The Bad Seed is an indelible portrait of an evil that wears an innocent face, one which still resonates in popular culture today.

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