My Brilliant Career  Unabridged, Miles Franklin
My Brilliant Career  Unabridged, Miles Franklin
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My Brilliant Career - Unabridged

Author: Miles Franklin

Narrator: Sara Nichols

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/25/2022


Synopsis

Written while she was still a teenager, My Brilliant Career catapulted young Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (writing as Miles Franklin) into worldwide fame. In fact, the sudden popularity of the book in Australia (and the perceived closeness of the plot to her own family history) caused Franklin to withdraw the book from publication until after her death.

The story centers on Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia whose family is plunged into debt by their alcoholic father. Young Sybylla's story follows her romance with suitor Harold Beecham, her forced servitude to one of her father's creditors and her attempts to become a famous writer.

Long hailed as one of the most popular and celebrated works in Australian literary history, My Brilliant Career is presented here in its original and unabridged format.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on March 27, 2023

My sense is that this novel richly deserves the pride of place that it holds within the literary canon of Australia, and that My Brilliant Career (1901) remains the definitive novel of Australia’s late-colonial and early national period. Writing this novel when she was only a teenager, Stella Maria......more

Goodreads review by Suz on April 11, 2017

About time this ‘Aussie girl’ read this book, written by a fellow ‘Aussie girl’. Miles Franklin the iconic Australian author, has penned this classic, written when she was barely an adult herself. She was a woman born of another era. Her times were meant to be spent, toiling the land (or should I sa......more

Goodreads review by Katie on April 19, 2022

Maybe 4.5. A thoroughly interesting read – clever and compelling and thought-provoking.......more

Goodreads review by Dagio_maya on May 23, 2021

"Ah, tu, demone crudele… Ambizione! Desiderio!" Pubblicato ad Edimburgo nel 1901, “La mia brillante carriera” è l’opera più nota della scrittrice australiana Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, (s)conosciuta come Miles Franklin. Non un racconto romanzato, non un romanzo realistico, dice l’autrice......more