My Brilliant Career
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the turn of the twentieth century in rural New South Wales, a fiercely independent young woman named Sybylla Melvyn dares to dream beyond the dust and drudgery of her drought-stricken family farm — a dream that sets her irrevocably apart from the world that seeks to contain her. My Brilliant Career chronicles Sybylla's passionate resistance to the conventional fate awaiting women of her time: marriage, domesticity, and self-erasure. When the charming and wealthy Harry Beecham enters her life, the novel ignites with a tension between desire and ambition, love and liberty, forcing Sybylla — and the reader — to confront the true cost of a woman's independence. Written when Miles Franklin was just a teenager and published in 1901, this landmark of Australian literature stands as one of the earliest and most defiant feminist novels in the English-speaking world. Franklin's prose is vivid, irreverent, and shot through with sardonic wit, giving Sybylla a voice that feels startlingly modern even today. The novel's enduring power lies in its refusal to offer easy resolutions — it insists, with quiet ferocity, that a woman's inner life is worth more than any romantic settlement. For anyone who has ever weighed a great ambition against a great love, Sybylla's story remains achingly, urgently unfinished.
Author: Miles Franklin
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the turn of the twentieth century in rural New South Wales, a fiercely independent young woman named Sybylla Melvyn dares to dream beyond the dust and drudgery of her drought-stricken family farm — a dream that sets her irrevocably apart from the world that seeks to contain her. My Brilliant Career chronicles Sybylla's passionate resistance to the conventional fate awaiting women of her time: marriage, domesticity, and self-erasure. When the charming and wealthy Harry Beecham enters her life, the novel ignites with a tension between desire and ambition, love and liberty, forcing Sybylla — and the reader — to confront the true cost of a woman's independence. Written when Miles Franklin was just a teenager and published in 1901, this landmark of Australian literature stands as one of the earliest and most defiant feminist novels in the English-speaking world. Franklin's prose is vivid, irreverent, and shot through with sardonic wit, giving Sybylla a voice that feels startlingly modern even today. The novel's enduring power lies in its refusal to offer easy resolutions — it insists, with quiet ferocity, that a woman's inner life is worth more than any romantic settlement. For anyone who has ever weighed a great ambition against a great love, Sybylla's story remains achingly, urgently unfinished.