My Brilliant Career

Text Classics

Miles Franklin, Jennifer Byrne

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Text Publishing Company
26 April 2012

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Australian Fiction

Series: Text Classics

This is not a romance—I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarn—a real yarn. Oh!

Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tale of Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl—passionate, endearing, stubborn, honest—and her fraught journey from rags to riches to rags.

By: Miles Franklin
Introduction by: Jennifer Byrne
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 314g
ISBN: 9781921922190
ISBN 10: 1921922192
Series: Text Classics
Publication Date: 26 April 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for My Brilliant Career: Text Classics

"‘The book is true to Australia—the truest I ever read.’ -- Henry Lawson 'Franklin shines an intense light not only into the deep recesses of a bright young mind but on the dark corners of inequality caused by ""the rope of class distinction"". Indeed, the author is most searingly brilliant when depicting those who poignantly fail to achieve brilliance.' * Guardian *"