{"product_id":"2026100009486-secondhand-my-brilliant-career","title":"My Brilliant Career","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: First published in 1901. Preface by Henry Lawson. Original cloth. x, 232 pp. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the sun-scorched Australian bush at the turn of the twentieth century, a fiercely independent young woman named Sybylla Melvyn dares to dream of a life beyond poverty, drudgery, and an unwanted marriage — and her story crackles with a defiant energy that still resonates over a century after it was written. My Brilliant Career chronicles Sybylla's passionate struggle against the crushing limitations imposed upon women of her era, as she navigates the harshness of rural life, the attentions of the wealthy and eligible Harold Beecham, and her own turbulent heart, all while clinging to an audacious ambition: to be an artist, to be free, to matter.\n\nFirst published in 1901, Miles Franklin's landmark novel stands as a cornerstone of Australian literature, remarkable for having been written by Franklin herself at just sixteen years of age. The narrative voice is bracingly candid, self-deprecating, and electric — a stream of consciousness that prefigures the modern feminist novel by decades. Franklin illustrates with unflinching honesty the impossible bind faced by women who possess genius in a world that demands their silence, and the novel's final, breathtaking act of self-determination leaves the reader questioning just how much — or how little — the world has truly changed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203124338907,"sku":"2026100009486-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b036482d-d19c-415b-840f-5a504211a83b.png?v=1788144673","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009486-secondhand-my-brilliant-career","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}