My Brilliant Career (Virago Modern Classics)

by Miles Franklin (Author), Carmen Callil (Introduction), Miles Franklin (Author), Carmen Callil (Introduction)

• Used

  Paperback
  1980

  $3.42

  First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the live of 16-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 a more refined, aesthetic lifestyle -- to read, to think, to sing -- but most of all to do great things. Suddenly her life is transformed. Whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property, she falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. And soon she finds herself choosing between everything a conventional life offers and her own plans for a 'brilliant career'.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $5.52

  Originally published in 1901, this is the story of Sybylla, who grows up passionate and rebellious in rural NSW, and instead of wanting to marry or teach, Sybylla wants to write.

• New

  Paperback
  1980

  $11.58

  First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the live of 16-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 a more refined, aesthetic lifestyle -- to read, to think, to sing -- but most of all to do great things. Suddenly her life is transformed. Whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property, she falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. And soon she finds herself choosing between everything a conventional life offers and her own plans for a 'brilliant career'.