My Brilliant Career

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Published 1900 onward

Authors: Miles Franklin In Year : 1901

Book Language: English

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Preface and Introduction
I Remember, I Remember
An Introduction to Possum Gully
A Lifeless Life
A Career which soon Careered to an End
Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles
Revolt
Was e’er A Rose without its Thorn?
Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!
Aunt Helen’s Recipe
Everard Grey
Yah!
One Grand Passion
He
Principally Letters
When the Heart is Young
When Fortune Smiles
Idylls of Youth
As Short as I Wish had been the Majority of Sermons to which I have been Forced to give Ear
The 9th of November 1896
Same Yarn (Cont.)
My Unladylike Behaviour Again
Sweet Seventeen
Ah, for one Hour of Burning Love, ’tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect!
Thou Knowest not What a Day May Bring Forth
Because?
Boast not Thyself of Tomorrow
My Journey
To Life
To Life (Cont.)
Where Ignorance is Bliss, ’tis Folly to be Wise
Mr M’Swat and I have a Bust-up
Ta-ta to Barney’s Gap
Back at Possum Gully
But Absent Friends are Soon Forgot
The 3rd. of December 1898
Once Upon a Time, when the Days were Long and Hot
He that Despises Little Things shall Fall Little by Little
A Tale that is Told, and a Day that is Done

Sybella: "There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I am one of a class, the individuals of which have no time for plots in their life, but have all they can do to get their work done without indulging in such a luxury". Like the author Miles Franklin, Sybella grows up in the bush, and as her family's fortunes decline, so her feelings rise that life should hold more for her than the relentless hard physical work farming marginal land in times of drought. (Summary by Annise)