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This is not a romance—I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarn—a real yarn. Oh!
Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tale of Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl—passionate, endearing, stubborn, honest—and her fraught journey from rags to riches to rags.
About the Author
Miles Franklin was born in central New South Wales, in 1879. By the age of twenty, Franklin had completed her first novel, My Brilliant Career. After it was rejected by local publishers, she sent it to Henry Lawson, who called it ‘the first great Australian novel’. He helped her to get it published in Britain in 1901. Miles Franklin published nineteen novels and provided for the creation of the Miles Franklin Award, Australia’s premier literary award.
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Ms Franklin's insights into the early days of Australian pioneering farming families is fresh and easy to read and not stuffy in the slightest. Her crafting of characters brings them very much to life and draws the reader into her own "brilliant career". The book is written as a biography, and the only "sore point" is the hurtful way her character speaks to the man who truly loves her and who she shuns.
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ISBN: 9781921922190
ISBN-10: 1921922192
Series: Text Classics
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 288
Published: 26th April 2012
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9
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