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  • My Brilliant Career

    *** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.***Synopsis:Sybella “There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I am one of a class, the individuals of which have no time for plots in their life, but have all they can do to get their work done without indulging in such a luxury”.Like the ... Read more

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  • My Brilliant Career

    The novel tells the story of Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong and independent young woman growing up in rural Australia during the late 19th century. Sybylla is passionate about literature and dreams of becoming a writer. However, she faces numerous obstacles and societal expectations that challenge her aspirations.Set in the Australian bush, the novel explores themes of gender roles, class ... Read more

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  • My Brilliant Career - Unabridged

    Written while she was still a teenager, My Brilliant Career catapulted young Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (writing as Miles Franklin) into worldwide fame. In fact, the sudden popularity of the book in Australia (and the perceived closeness of the plot to her own family history) caused Franklin to withdraw the book from publication until after her death.The story centers on Sybylla Melvyn, a ... Read more

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  • My Brilliant Career/My Career Goes Bung

    Series series A&R Classics
    Passionate, headstrong and imaginative, Sybylla Melvyn is one of the most endearing heroines of Australian literature.'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.' With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore on a brilliant career. In this ... Read more

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  • My Brilliant Career

    MY DEAR FELLOW AUSTRALIANS,Just a few lines to tell you that this story is all about myself—for no other purpose do I write it.I make no apologies for being egotistical. In this particular I attempt an improvement on other autobiographies. Other autobiographies weary one with excuses for their egotism. What matters it to you if I am egotistical? What matters it to you though it should matter that ... Read more

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  • Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

    In "Some Everyday Folk and Dawn," readers are likely to encounter a story that revolves around the lives of ordinary people in rural Australia. The novel explores themes such as family dynamics, community relationships, and the struggles and triumphs of everyday life.Miles Franklin's writing often reflects her deep connection to the Australian landscape and her keen observations of Australian ... Read more

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  • All That Swagger

    All That Swagger has been acclaimed by pundits as one of the best Australian books yet composed. The story develops from the center outwards from one who feels the enchantment of Australia. The characters are established in the dirt, the woodland, as the early pioneers were. One subject anxieties character - that backbone of direction, hardihood boldness, honesty, which should perpetually be the ... Read more

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  • Back to Bool Bool

    A great portion of the book is devoted to the reactions of Freda and Dick to this country after an absence of many years. The poet in Dick is depressed by the absence of trees in Hyde Park, Sydney, the invasion of human habitations on the shores of the harbour, and the general departure from the spirit of the bush as he knew it in his younger days. The social critic in Freda rebels at the in flow ... Read more

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  • My Brilliant Career

    The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classicMiles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to Jane Eyre. But the book she produced-a thinly veiled autobiographical novel about a young girl hungering for life and ... Read more

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  • Up the Country

    A saga of Pioneering Days

    Contains a Table of Contents.   Miles Franklin (born "Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin"; 1879 – 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist, who is best known for her autobiographical novel, My Brilliant Career, published in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936. She was committed to the development of a ... Read more

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  • My Brilliant Career

    This impassioned debut novel by Miles Franklin was written when its author was only 16 years old and glistens with precocious wisdom.My Brilliant Career is a semi-autobiographical novel that features a turn-of-the-century heroine who seems to have wandered from the pages of a Louisa May Alcott novel into the Australian Outback.Sybylla Melvyn is an Australian proto-feminist heroine, a wild and ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    My Brilliant Career - Unabridged

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    Unabridged

    9 hours 33 min

    Written while she was still a teenager, My Brilliant Career catapulted young Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (writing as Miles Franklin) into worldwide fame. In fact, the sudden popularity of the book in Australia (and the perceived closeness of the plot to her own family history) caused Franklin to withdraw the book from publication until after her death. The story centers on Sybylla Melvyn, a ... Read more

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