My Brilliant Career My Career Goes Bung

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Allen & Unwin
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742699448

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Pdf

'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 : The Floating Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775411314

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Pdf

Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends. It depicts the poor, intelligent Sybylla who cannot accustom herself to her family's reduced circumstances. She is given a reprieve and sent to her Grandmother's grand house, where she mingles with the best rural society, including the handsome Harry Beecham. She is faced with the choice of material improvement through marriage, or personal improvement through working for her dreams.

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338080981

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My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin Pdf

Sybylla, strong-headed and capable, lived her sixteen years of life in the Australian outback, in poverty. She fondly remembers her younger years, including her parents' concern about her not being very feminine. At the age of ten, her life changes dramatically: bankruptcy, drought and humiliation bring her and her family to the brink of poverty. At fifteen, Sybylla is invited to her grandmother's estate and there she takes up hobbies such as music, books and art. She also falls in love and experiences for the first time the joy and pain that love can bring...

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Australia
ISBN : OCLC:1285755215

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Pdf

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503387933

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Pdf

"[...] THIRTY-FIVE. THE 3RD OF DECEMBER 1898 THIRTY-SIX. ONCE UPON A TIME, WHEN THE DAYS WERE LONG AND HOT THIRTY-SEVEN. HE THAT DESPISETH LITTLE THINGS, SHALL FALL LITTLE BY LITTLE [...]."

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Waking Lion Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1709140275

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All That Swagger by Miles Franklin Pdf

All That Swagger has been acclaimed by pundits as one of the best Australian books yet composed. The story develops from the center outwards from one who feels the enchantment of Australia. The characters are established in the dirt, the woodland, as the early pioneers were. One subject anxieties character - that backbone of direction, hardihood boldness, honesty, which should perpetually be the establishment of any stable and moral State or condition of society. It introduces the courageous independence with which the extraordinary Australian landmass has been investigated, studied, fenced, cleared, furrowed, and is presently monitored by a virile people. Here is an immense canvas, State-wide, and as long as history itself - to the extent that it contains the depiction of life and improvement in this station of the British Empire. Aptitude and condition have productively consolidated in the generation. The author moves living pieces on the squares of a mammoth chessboard, and she plays the game such that shows obviously that she comprehends the gambit of life and every one of its varieties. All That Swagger is all Australian in each word. Just an Australian could have composed it.

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743099414

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My Brilliant Career/My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin Pdf

Passionate, headstrong and imaginative, Sybylla Melvyn is one of the most endearing heroines of Australian literature. 'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.' With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore on a brilliant career. In this ironically titled and riotous first novel by Miles Franklin, originally published in 1901, Sybylla tells the story of growing up passionate and rebellious in rural NSW, where the most that girls could hope for was to marry or to teach. Sybylla will do neither, but that doesn't stop her from falling in love, and it doesn't make the choices any easier. Included in this edition is the sequel, My Career Goes Bung, which sees Sybylla amongst the literati in Sydney.

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000044130077

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The End of My Career by Miles Franklin Pdf

Author : James Bean (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988088763

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My Brilliant Career by James Bean (author) Pdf

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781921921797

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Pdf

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.

Author : Jill Roe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674036093

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Her Brilliant Career by Jill Roe Pdf

Stella Miles Franklin became an international publishing sensation in 1901, with "My Brilliant Career," a portrayal of an ambitious and independent woman defying social expectations that still captivates readers. In a magisterial biography, Roe details Miles' extraordinary life.

Author : Miles Franklin,Jennifer Byrne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Australia
ISBN : 145963747X

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin,Jennifer Byrne Pdf

Author : Jasper Fforde
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781844569212

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The Well Of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde Pdf

The third book in the phenomenal Thursday Next series from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. In the words of one critic: 'Don't ask. Just read it.' Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ... With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'.