My Brilliant Career edition by Miles Franklin Literature Fiction eBooks
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There's something wild in this ''picture of a young girl hungering for life and love in the harsh outback plains of New South Wales''. Banned by the author herself until ten years after her death in 1954, this vivid Australian classic was originally published in Edinburgh.
My Brilliant Career edition by Miles Franklin Literature Fiction eBooks
Animated, original, amusing, sympathetic autobiographical account from the end of the 19th century in rural NSW and Sydney. Both books need to be read since the first relies on the second to be understood as the author wished. Delightfully fresh and direct narration, full of colloquialisms and slang, strong points of view and humour. Another film (after My Brilliant Career) should be made, based on both of these books, to give a more honest and less romantic portrait both of Stella Miles Franklin and of her times.Product details
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My Brilliant Career edition by Miles Franklin Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
It's a first novel, written by a very young woman in Australia in the 1800's. And it's a great introduction to both Australian literature and history. The writing is patchy, because she was so young, but the scenes she describes are vivid and lively, and show both the impoverished and the richer Australians of the time. recommended if you're planning a visit there, or if you're interested in a thinly disguised memoir of the period.
I read this book and saw the film many years ago. Much of its appeal came from the revelation of some aspects of Australian life.
This is the story of a gifted spirited young girl in her late teens, struggling to maintain her humanity and independence while feeling crushed by the toils of homesteading in the Australian Outback. She also fights against the stereotypical roles of women at the turn of the century. This book was published under a male pseudonym , beautifully written, with heartfelt descriptions of the stark harsh life there and of the writer's intense desire to be free to pursue her creative dreams. This book is suitable for women of all ages and in any era.
Miles Franklin's writing is so vivid that you almost feel you know this character. Upon investigating online, you
discover that she did not write an autobiography. I felt very let down. I see that she has written "Diaries" and
I am anxious to read that. I want to know who Miles Franklin really is. You can realize how the poor people
lived in Australia in the turn of the century and also how the higher classes lived. The book left me very unsettled
until I learn more about her.
Loved the movie, loved the book, My career goes Bung is another book by Franklin that I thoroughly enjoyed. She has a contemplative style that I enjoy, along with her choices and how hard those choices really are.
I enjoyed reading this after visiting Australia for the first time last year and learning first hand more about the Australian way of life.
A heart-wrenching depiction of the toughness of Australian pastoral life when the elements are not in your favour, as well as a testament to the resilience of the people who worked on ‘the land’. It is, of course, also a pioneering feminist work, focusing as it does on Sybylla’s fiercely independent personality and her determination not to be shackled by the traditional role of women of that era (1900s), and to pursue a “brilliant career”. The writing is evocative … you can feel the dust of drought in your hair, and the angst of hearts breaking.
I downloaded the ebook from at no cost. There are some typographical errors, but easily understood.
The author, a woman, was 19 when she wrote the novel. Some of the characters were so easily identified that she supposedly withheld publication until much later. This is the gritty, dirty, dusty story of what it was like in the late 1800's in Australia. A land dominated by men and where women were supposed to marry, have children and housekeep.
The author had other plans. She was very different from other women. Very small at 5'1" and very plain looking, her early life consisted mostly of hardship. Her father, one a prominent land owner, is busted by a severe drought and winds up losing his land and cattle and becomes a drunk, unable to support his family of 11 children. Her mother, once a well born sophisticated woman, eventually steps lower and lower down the ladder until she is virtually a peasant.
Miles gets one lucky break when her well off Grandma and Aunt have her at their estate. Miles once again meets a variety of talented people who frequent that home. She meets a 6'3" handsome, wealthy sheep rancher and they immediately sense a special spark. He proposes several times. She finally makes a promise. He loses everything due to a legal issue and goes off to rebuild his fortune.
Her mother forces Miles to become a teacher to a remote family having several children who live is a hovel, eat and dress like pigs and refuse to learn anything. Coming from her Grandmother's to this degradation is difficult and she eventually suffers a mental breakdown and is sent back to her mother.
By now her father is a constant drunk and her mother an uncaring, unfeeling, indifferent person who constantly berates Miles. Instead of being sent back to her grandmother's, the next youngest daughter is sent. A beautiful girl just a year younger than Miles.
In the meanwhile her fiancé has amazingly inherited a large fortune from a relative and is once again wealthy. He again proposes to Miles. She hems and haws but finally believes that he is not truly sensitive to her ways and desires and she declines. End of novel.
The movie starring Judy Davis is spot on.
Miles went on to become a major Australian author and there is now a book award given in her name. The novel is very well written for such a young woman and is filled with interesting facts about the harsh life suffered by the tough men and women in Australia at that time.
Her writing reminds me very much of Willa Cather's two wonderful novels My Antonia and O Pioneers which depict the incredible harshness of immigrant settlements in the mid west USA.
Animated, original, amusing, sympathetic autobiographical account from the end of the 19th century in rural NSW and Sydney. Both books need to be read since the first relies on the second to be understood as the author wished. Delightfully fresh and direct narration, full of colloquialisms and slang, strong points of view and humour. Another film (after My Brilliant Career) should be made, based on both of these books, to give a more honest and less romantic portrait both of Stella Miles Franklin and of her times.
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