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My Brilliant Career: Text Classics
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
My Brilliant Career: Text Classics
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Miles Franklin
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:288 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781921922190
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Classifications | Dewey:A823.30 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Text Publishing
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Imprint |
The Text Publishing Company
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Publication Date |
26 April 2012 |
Publication Country |
Australia
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Description
"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.
Author Biography
Authors Bio, not available
Reviews'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
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