{"product_id":"2026200008511-secondhand-my-brilliant-career","title":"My Brilliant Career","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956363112667,"sku":"2026200008511-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/23a2b17d-dcbc-46e3-a079-46e7ce8f6076.png?v=1783500263","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200008511-secondhand-my-brilliant-career","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}