My Brilliant Career [NOOK Book]

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Overview

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.
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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.

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  • BN ID: 2940000713662
  • Publisher: Neeland Media
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • File size: 326 KB

Meet the Author

Sandra M. Gilbert teaches at the University of California, Davis.

Table of Contents

Introduction v
1. I Remember, I Remember 3
2. An Introduction to Possum Gully 7
3. A Lifeless Life 10
4. A Career Which Soon Careered to an End 15
5. Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles 20
6. Revolt 28
7. War E'er a Rose Without Its Thorn? 35
8. Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah! 45
9. Aunt Helen's Recipe 55
10. Everard Grey 62
11. Yah! 71
12. One Grand Passion 79
13. He 85
14. Principally Letters 94
15. When the Heart is Young 101
16. When Fortune Smiles 106
17. Idylls of Youth 114
18. As Short as I Wish Had Been the Majority of Sermons to Which I Have Been Forced to Give Ear 125
19. The 9th of November 1896 128
20. Same Yarn--continued 136
21. My Unladylike Behaviour Again 145
22. Sweet Seventeen 150
23. Ah, For One Hour of Burning Love, 'Tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect! 159
24. Thou Knowest Not What a Day May Bring Forth 167
25. Because? 172
26. Boast Not Thyself of Tomorrow 177
27. My Journey 185
28. To Life 188
29. To Life--continued 196
30. Where Ignorance is Bliss, 'Tis Folly to Be Wise 209
31. Mr M'Swat and I Have a Bust-up 214
32. Ta-ta to Barney's Gap 222
33. Back at Possum Gully 225
34. But Absent Friends are Soon Forgot 230
35. The 3rd of December 1898 237
36. Once Upon a Time, When the Days Were Long and Hot 242
37. He That Despiseth Little Things, Shall Fall Little by Little 252
38. A Tale That is Told and a Day That is Done 256
Endnotes 259

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