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My Brilliant Career (Virago Modern Classics)
Miles Franklin
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Description for My Brilliant Career (Virago Modern Classics)
Paperback. *The story of a young girl's dreams, aspirations and melodramas told with zest and verve by the 16-year-old author Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
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'A splendidly vivid display . . . its sharply detailed, entirely convincing voice' THE TIMES
'An insightful exploration of class, gender and youthful frustration' ANITA SETHI, GUARDIAN
'It combines linguistic surprise and inertness in a way possible only to genius' NEW YORK TIMES
First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the live of sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, she simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. For Sybylla longs for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Angus & Robertson
Condition
New
Series
VMC
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860681939
SKU
V9780860681939
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About Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin (1879-1954) was born into a pioneering family settled in New South Wales, Australia. She wrote My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen. Publication in 1901 brought instant fame and a notoriety that was so unwelcome that she forbade its republication until ten years after her death. Franklin then went to America, where she worked for ... Read more
Reviews for My Brilliant Career (Virago Modern Classics)
A splendidly vivid display . . . carrying the reader by force of its narrative and its sharply detailed, entirely convincing voice
The Times
Miles Franklin's 1901 debut novel remains an insightful exploration of class, gender and youthful frustration
Anita Sethi
Guardian
It combines linguistic surprise and inertness in a way possible only to genius ... Read more
The Times
Miles Franklin's 1901 debut novel remains an insightful exploration of class, gender and youthful frustration
Anita Sethi
Guardian
It combines linguistic surprise and inertness in a way possible only to genius ... Read more