My Brilliant Career: Text Classics

Author:   Miles Franklin ,  Jennifer Byrne
Publisher:   Text Publishing
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9781921922190


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   26 April 2012
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Miles Franklin ,  Jennifer Byrne
Publisher:   Text Publishing
Imprint:   The Text Publishing Company
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.314kg
ISBN:  

9781921922190


ISBN 10:   1921922192
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   26 April 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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"‘The book is true to Australia—the truest I ever read.’ -- Henry Lawson 'Franklin shines an intense light not only into the deep recesses of a bright young mind but on the dark corners of inequality caused by ""the rope of class distinction"". Indeed, the author is most searingly brilliant when depicting those who poignantly fail to achieve brilliance.' * Guardian *"


'The book is true to Australia-the truest I ever read.' -- Henry Lawson 'Franklin shines an intense light not only into the deep recesses of a bright young mind but on the dark corners of inequality caused by the rope of class distinction . Indeed, the author is most searingly brilliant when depicting those who poignantly fail to achieve brilliance.' Guardian


'Franklin shines an intense light not only into the deep recesses of a bright young mind but on the dark corners of inequality caused by the rope of class distinction . Indeed, the author is most searingly brilliant when depicting those who poignantly fail to achieve brilliance.' * Guardian * `The book is true to Australia-the truest I ever read.' -- Henry Lawson


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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born in Talbingo in central New South Wales, in 1879. Raised in the country, in a family of diminishing fortunes, she received only a basic education but enough to spark an interest in writing. 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 wrote a preface for it and helped her to get it published in Britain in 1901. After this success Franklin worked as a domestic servant to gather material for her second novel, My Career Goes Bung, which remained unpublished until 1946. She moved to Chicago in 1906, where she wrote two novels and worked for the National Women’s Trade Union League. After World War I, she worked in a women’s hospital in England. Franklin returned to Australia in 1927. The following year she had a hit on her hands with Up the Country, published under the pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin. Miles Franklin published nineteen novels before her death in 1954. In her will she provided for the creation of the Miles Franklin Award, Australia’s premier literary award.

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