My Brilliant Career
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Set against the harsh, sun-scorched landscape of late nineteenth-century rural Australia, My Brilliant Career is the fiercely autobiographical story of Sybylla Melvyn — a spirited, intellectually restless young woman who dares to dream of a life beyond the drudgery of the bush and the suffocating expectations placed upon women of her era. Caught between poverty, family duty, and the tantalising possibility of education and artistic fulfilment, Sybylla wages an intensely personal battle against a world determined to confine her, rejecting even the prospect of a comfortable marriage in pursuit of something far more elusive: her own authentic voice. First published in 1901, Miles Franklin's landmark debut novel stands as a cornerstone of Australian literature — a work of startling originality and unapologetic feminist conviction written when its author was just a teenager. Franklin's prose crackles with wit, passion, and an almost painful self-awareness, giving Sybylla a narrative presence that feels as urgent and uncompromising today as it did at the turn of the century. Presented here as part of The Collector's Library of Australia's Great Books, this edition invites readers to discover why My Brilliant Career remains a defining work of national identity — and to ask themselves whether Sybylla ever truly found the brilliance she so desperately sought.
Author: Miles Franklin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1987, Times House (The Collector's Library of Australia's Great Books)
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Set against the harsh, sun-scorched landscape of late nineteenth-century rural Australia, My Brilliant Career is the fiercely autobiographical story of Sybylla Melvyn — a spirited, intellectually restless young woman who dares to dream of a life beyond the drudgery of the bush and the suffocating expectations placed upon women of her era. Caught between poverty, family duty, and the tantalising possibility of education and artistic fulfilment, Sybylla wages an intensely personal battle against a world determined to confine her, rejecting even the prospect of a comfortable marriage in pursuit of something far more elusive: her own authentic voice. First published in 1901, Miles Franklin's landmark debut novel stands as a cornerstone of Australian literature — a work of startling originality and unapologetic feminist conviction written when its author was just a teenager. Franklin's prose crackles with wit, passion, and an almost painful self-awareness, giving Sybylla a narrative presence that feels as urgent and uncompromising today as it did at the turn of the century. Presented here as part of The Collector's Library of Australia's Great Books, this edition invites readers to discover why My Brilliant Career remains a defining work of national identity — and to ask themselves whether Sybylla ever truly found the brilliance she so desperately sought.