My Brilliant Career (Australian Classics) - Hardcover

Franklin, Miles

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9780312555993: My Brilliant Career (Australian Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0312555997 ISBN 13: 9780312555993

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1980

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This captivating Australian novel transcends time and genre in the classic tale of an extraordinarily ambitious young woman who passionately evades marriage to pursue her envisioned brilliant career

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Written by a teenager living in the Australian bush in the 1890s and originally published in 1901, Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career is a candid representation of the aspirations and frustrations of a young woman constrained by middle-class social arrangements, especially the pressure to marry. My Brilliant Career has continued to delight readers and to cause them to locate their personal realities in the struggle of Franklin’s heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, to recognize and to pursue what she most wants and needs in her life.

In addition to the rich selection of appendices, this edition includes maps of early twentieth-century Australia and a critical introduction that outlines political and economic developments relevant to the novel, traces the literary landscape upon which My Brilliant Career first appeared, and describes the reception and interpretation given the novel in the century after its initial publication (including the celebrated 1979 film adaptation).

About the Author:

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

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