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My Brilliant Career — Miles Franklin

My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 245 pages

An Australian coming-of-age novel first published in 1901. It follows Sybylla Melvyn, a young woman in rural New South Wales who longs for independence and creative work while resisting pressure to marry. It offers a vivid, intimate portrait of a girl's ambitions and the limits placed on women of her time.

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Opening of the book

My Brilliant Career
by Miles Franklin
1901

Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE. I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER
CHAPTER TWO. AN INTRODUCTION TO POSSUM GULLY
CHAPTER THREE. A LIFELESS LIFE
CHAPTER FOUR. A CAREER WHICH SOON CAREERED TO AN END
CHAPTER FIVE. DISJOINTED SKETCHES AND CRUMBLES
CHAPTER SIX. REVOLT
CHAPTER SEVEN. WAS E’ER A ROSE WITHOUT ITS THORN?
CHAPTER EIGHT. POSSUM GULLY LEFT BEHIND. HURRAH!
HURRAH!
CHAPTER NINE. AUNT HELEN’S RECIPE
CHAPTER TEN. EVERARD GREY
CHAPTER ELEVEN. YAH!
CHAPTER TWELVE. ONE GRAND PASSION
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. HE
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. PRINCIPALLY LETTERS
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. WHEN THE HEART IS YOUNG
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. WHEN FORTUNE SMILES
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. IDYLLS OF YOUTH
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. AS SHORT AS I WISH HAD BEEN THE
MAJORITY OF SERMONS TO WHICH I HAVE BEEN FORCED TO
GIVE EAR
CHAPTER NINETEEN. THE 9TH OF NOVEMBER 1896

CHAPTER TWENTY. SAME YARN (Cont.)
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. MY UNLADYLIKE BEHAVIOUR AGAIN
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. SWEET SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. AH, FOR ONE HOUR OF BURNING
LOVE, ’TIS WORTH AN AGE OF COLD RESPECT!
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. THOU KNOWEST NOT WHAT A DAY
MAY BRING FORTH
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. BECAUSE?
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX. BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN MY JOURNEY
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT. TO LIFE
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE. TO LIFE (Cont.)
CHAPTER THIRTY. WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS, ’TIS FOLLY TO
BE WISE
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE. MR M’SWAT AND I HAVE A BUST-UP
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO. TA-TA TO BARNEY’S GAP
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE. BACK AT POSSUM GULLY
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR. BUT ABSENT FRIENDS ARE SOON
FORGOT
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE. THE 3RD OF DECEMBER 1898
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX. ONCE UPON A TIME, WHEN THE DAYS
WERE LONG AND HOT
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN. HE THAT DESPISETH LITTLE THINGS,
SHALL FALL LITTLE BY LITTLE
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT. A TALE THAT IS TOLD AND A DAY
THAT IS DONE

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Contents

  1. My Brilliant Career
  2. 1901
  3. Contents
  4. PREFACE
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. CHAPTER ONE I Remember, I Remember
  7. CHAPTER TWO An Introduction to Possum Gully
  8. CHAPTER THREE A Lifeless Life
  9. CHAPTER FOUR A Career Which Soon Careered To An End
  10. CHAPTER FIVE Disjointed Sketches And Grumbles
  11. CHAPTER SIX Revolt
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN Was E’er a Rose Without Its Thorn?
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!
  14. CHAPTER NINE Aunt Helen’s Recipe
  15. CHAPTER TEN Everard Grey
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN Yah!
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE One Grand Passion
  18. CHAPTER THIRTEEN He
  19. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Principally Letters
  20. CHAPTER FIFTEEN When the Heart is Young
  21. CHAPTER SIXTEEN When Fortune Smiles
  22. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Idylls of Youth
  23. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN As Short as I Wish had been the Majority of Sermons to which I have been Forced to give Ear
  24. CHAPTER NINETEEN The 9th of November 1896
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY Same Yarn—continued
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE My Unladylike Behaviour Again
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Sweet Seventeen
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Ah, For One Hour of Burning Love, ’Tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect!
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Thou Knowest Not What a Day May Bring Forth
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Because?

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