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  • My Brilliant Career

    My Brilliant Career is a spirited and unforgettable coming-of-age novel that follows a young woman determined to shape her own future in a society that expects her to conform to traditional roles. Intelligent, ambitious, and fiercely independent, the protagonist struggles to reconcile her dreams and aspirations with the expectations placed upon her by family and society. Set against the backdrop ... Read more

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  • My Brilliant Career

    My Brilliant Career, by Miles Franklin, is a landmark of Australian literature and one of the most compelling early novels about a young woman determined to shape her own destiny. At the heart of the story is Sybylla Melvyn, an intelligent, passionate, and fiercely imaginative young woman growing up in the harsh realities of rural Australia. Her family struggles financially, while Sybylla dreams ... 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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  • 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 uniquely ... Read more

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  • My Career Goes Bung

    Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her 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 uniquely Australian form of ... 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

    **THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIESThe fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic**Miles 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 ... Read more

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  • My Career Goes Bung

    'Sybylla, with her touching charm, her impetuosity, her inappropriateness, ranks with the great romantic figures of the nineteenth century.' - The London TimesIn this sequel to Miles Franklin's famous novel My Brilliant Career, once again we encounter the enchanting Sybylla Melvyn. She's a little older now, catapulted from bush obscurity into sudden fame with the publication of her autobiography. ... 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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  • The Classic Collection of Miles Franklin — Illustrated Edition

    My Brilliant Career; My Career Goes Bung; Up the Country; Ten Creeks Run; and Other Works

    The Classic Collection of Miles Franklin — Illustrated Edition brings together some of the most distinctive works of one of Australia’s most original and influential literary voices. Best known for her spirited portrayals of independent women and the realities of life in rural Australia, Miles Franklin combined sharp observation, humor, social criticism, and a profound sense of place. At the heart ... Read more

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  • ALL THAT SWAGGER

    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 uniquely ... Read more

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