{"product_id":"2026100009428-secondhand-my-brilliant-career-first-edition","title":"My Brilliant Career [First Edition]","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Rebound copy. Library stamps and markings appear on the title page and throughout the text block, and the front free endpaper and title page are missing. Despite this, it remains a genuine 1901 first edition of a landmark Australian novel — Miles Franklin's audacious debut, championed into print by Henry Lawson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the sun-scorched Australian bush of the 1890s, a fiercely independent young woman named Sybylla Melvyn wages a passionate and often painful war against the constraints of poverty, gender, and expectation — a battle that remains as urgent and electrifying today as when it was first written. My Brilliant Career chronicles Sybylla's determined refusal to surrender her dreams of a literary life to the suffocating conventions of rural colonial society, rejecting a comfortable marriage and the security it promises in favour of her own artistic identity. Miles Franklin's debut novel, published in 1901 with a preface by celebrated bush poet Henry Lawson, announces the arrival of a voice that is by turns sardonic, romantic, and unflinchingly honest.\n\nA landmark of Australian literature, the novel stands as one of the earliest and most powerful feminist narratives in the English language, presenting a protagonist whose self-determination feels wholly modern despite her Victorian setting. Franklin writes with a razor-sharp wit and an intimate lyricism that captures both the brutal beauty of the Australian landscape and the interior world of a young woman who refuses to be diminished by it. A century on, Sybylla's question — can a woman choose art over conformity and survive the consequences? — still cuts to the bone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203122700507,"sku":"2026100009428-SECONDHAND","price":125.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3ab9361a-06a7-4376-85a5-ef9964d51717.png?v=1788144621","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009428-secondhand-my-brilliant-career-first-edition","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}