My Brilliant Career Large Print Edition

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742699448

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'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!' First published in 1901, this Australian classic is the candid tale of the aspirations and frustrations of sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl constrained by middle-class social arrangements, especially the pressure to marry. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, Sybylla simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. She longs for a more refined lifestyle - to read, to think, to sing - but most of all to do great things. Suddenly her life is transformed when she is whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property. There Sybylla falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. Soon she finds herself choosing between everything a conventional life offers and her own plans for a 'brilliant career'.

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Waking Lion Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1600964672

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My Brilliant Career, Large-Print Edition by Miles Franklin Pdf

Alternately hilarious and heartwarming, this beloved coming-of-age novel from the Australian outback brings together unforgettable characters with clarity and truth, all told in a unique young woman's voice. My Brilliant Career was made into an award-winning film starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143105051

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Pdf

The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to Jane Eyre. But the book she produced-a thinly veiled autobiographical novel about a young girl hungering for life and love in the outback-so scandalized her country upon its appearance in 1901 that she insisted it not be published again until ten years after her death.

Author : James Bean (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988088763

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My Brilliant Career by James Bean (author) Pdf

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:488459368

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Pdf

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1409930017

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My Brilliant Career (Dodo Press) by Miles Franklin Pdf

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879-1954) was an Australian writer and feminist, best known for her autobiographical novel, My Brilliant Career, published in 1901, which tells the story of an irrepressible teenage feminist growing to womanhood in rural New South Wales. After My Brilliant Career, she tried a career in nursing, and then as a housemaid in Sydney and Melbourne. Whilst doing this she contributed pieces to The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald. In 1906, she moved to the USA and undertook secretarial work, and co-edited the league[s magazine, Life and Labor. Her years in the U. S. are reflected in On Dearborn Street (not published until 1981). Also while in America she wrote Some Everyday Folk and Dawn (1909). In 1915, she travelled to England and worked in a Scottish Women[s Hospital. She resettled in Australia in 1932 after the death of her father and during a decade wrote several historical novels of the Australian bush. Although most of these were published under the pseudonym [Brent of Bin Bin, [ her masterpiece All That Swagger (1936) was published under her own name.

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Australia
ISBN : OCLC:1285755215

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Pdf

Author : Dymphna Cusack,Florence James,Miles Franklin
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0702231924

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Yarn Spinners by Dymphna Cusack,Florence James,Miles Franklin Pdf

Love, life, writing and friendship are the intimate subjects of letters between three intelligent, witty women who shared a passionate commitment to Australian literature. These carefully selected letters tell a story that reads like a novel. Their correspondence - from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s - reveals their public battles as well as their private ones. Their personal conflicts are a microcosm of Australian society's struggles over the period.

Author : Miles Franklin,Jennifer Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Australia
ISBN : 145963747X

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin,Jennifer Byrne Pdf

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1787804224

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Pdf

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742699455

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My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin Pdf

In this sequel to Miles Franklin's famous novel My Brilliant Career, once again we encounter the enchanting Sybylla Melvyn. She's a little older now, catapulted from bush obscurity into sudden fame with the publication of her autobiography. Sybylla goes to fashionable Sydney to further her career in the literary world, but her patrons, her critics and her innumerable suitors meet more than they bargained for in the wilful Sybylla. My Career Goes Bung was written in 1900 but was not published until 1946, considered too audacious and perhaps too revealing of its creator's own persona for publication.

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781442933316

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Pdf

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Author : Kristy Chambers
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780702248245

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Get Well Soon! by Kristy Chambers Pdf

Falling into the nursing profession, Kristy Chambers spent almost a decade working with a wide range of people, ranging from drug addicts to cancer patients. Dark, humorous, honest, and compassionate, this memoir illustrates the incredible work nurses do and the many challenges they face. A tribute to the wonderfully brave people Chambers met during her career, this book portrays both joyous and difficult experiences.

Author : Rachel Cooke
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062333889

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Her Brilliant Career by Rachel Cooke Pdf

An exuberant group biography—"a splendidly various collection of 'brief lives' written with both gusto and sensitivity" (The Guardian)—that follows ten women in 1950s Britain whose pioneering lives paved the way for feminism and laid the foundation of modern women's success. In Her Brilliant Career, Rachel Cooke goes back in time to offer an entertaining and iconoclastic look at ten women in the 1950s—pioneers whose professional careers and complicated private lives helped to create the opportunities available to today's women. These plucky and ambitious individuals—among them a film director, a cook, an architect, an editor, an archaeologist, a race car driver—left the house, discovered the bliss of work, and ushered in the era of the working woman. Daring and independent, these remarkable unsung heroines—whose obscurity makes their accomplishments all the more astonishing and relevant —loved passionately, challenged men's control, made their own mistakes, and took life on their own terms, breaking new ground and offering inspiration. Their individual portraits gradually form a landscape of 1950s culture, and women's unique—and rapidly evolving—role. Before there could be a Danica Patrick, there had to be a Sheila van Damm; before there was Barbara Walters, there was Nancy Spain; before there was Kathryn Bigelow, came Muriel Box. The pioneers of Her Brilliant Career forever changed the fabric of culture, society, and the work force. This is the Fifties, retold: vivid, surprising and, most of all, modern. Her Brilliant Career is illustrated with more than 80 black-and-white photographs.

Author : Ann Hornaday
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780465094240

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Talking Pictures by Ann Hornaday Pdf

A veteran film critic offers a lively, opinionated guide to thinking and talking about movies -- from Casablanca to Clueless Whether we are trying to impress a date after an art house film screening or discussing Oscar nominations among friends, we all need ways to look at and talk about movies. But with so much variety between an Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a Nora Ephron romantic comedy, how can everyday viewers determine what makes a good movie? In Talking Pictures, veteran film critic Ann Hornaday walks us through the production of a typical movie -- from script and casting to final sound edit -- and explains how to evaluate each piece of the process. How do we know if a film has been well-written, above and beyond snappy dialogue? What constitutes a great screen performance? What goes into praiseworthy cinematography, editing, and sound design? And what does a director really do? In a new epilogue, Hornaday addresses important questions of representation in film and the industry and how this can, and should, effect a movie-watching experience. Full of engaging anecdotes and interviews with actors and filmmakers, Talking Pictures will help us see movies in a whole new light-not just as fans, but as film critics in our own right.