{"title": "The Bad Seed", "covers": [36480, 1320496, 676503, 10376288], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "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."}, "first_publish_date": "June 28, 2005", "key": "/works/OL276092W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL541645A"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "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."}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction, psychological", "Fiction, thrillers, general", "Fiction in English", "Behavior genetics", "Fiction", "Mothers and daughters", "Serial murderers", "M\u00e8res et filles", "Romans, nouvelles", "Tueurs en s\u00e9rie", "G\u00e9n\u00e9tique du comportement"], "dewey_number": ["813/.52"], "genres": ["/tags/OL180T"], "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-25T09:41:27.933522"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-30T07:04:02.817617"}}