My Brilliant Career
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of Australian literature, My Brilliant Career is a semi-autobiographical novel that chronicles the spirited ambitions of Sybylla Melvyn, a fiercely independent young woman navigating the harsh realities of rural New South Wales in the late nineteenth century. Written with remarkable wit and emotional depth, Miles Franklin presents a portrait of a heroine who refuses to surrender her dreams of a writing career to the constraints of poverty, domesticity, and social expectation. The novel captures the tension between Sybylla's passionate longing for self-expression and the limited roles available to women in colonial Australia, delivered through a voice that is at once sardonic, lyrical, and utterly original. First published in 1901 when Franklin was just sixteen years old, it remains a defiant and enduring declaration of female independence, earning its place as one of the most celebrated works in the Australian literary canon.
Author: Miles Franklin
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of Australian literature, My Brilliant Career is a semi-autobiographical novel that chronicles the spirited ambitions of Sybylla Melvyn, a fiercely independent young woman navigating the harsh realities of rural New South Wales in the late nineteenth century. Written with remarkable wit and emotional depth, Miles Franklin presents a portrait of a heroine who refuses to surrender her dreams of a writing career to the constraints of poverty, domesticity, and social expectation. The novel captures the tension between Sybylla's passionate longing for self-expression and the limited roles available to women in colonial Australia, delivered through a voice that is at once sardonic, lyrical, and utterly original. First published in 1901 when Franklin was just sixteen years old, it remains a defiant and enduring declaration of female independence, earning its place as one of the most celebrated works in the Australian literary canon.