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My Brilliant Career
Capítulos (40)
- Preface 0:00
- Introduction 1:42
- I: I Remember, I Remember 5:18
- II: An Introduction to Possum Gully 13:48
- III: A Lifeless Life 19:50
- IV: A Career Which Soon Careered to an End 29:46
- V: Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles 39:12
- VI: Revolt 58:03
- VII: Was E’er a Rose Without Its Thorn? 1:14:14
- VIII: Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah! 1:37:02
- IX: Aunt Helen’s Recipe 1:59:19
- X: Everard Grey 2:15:51
- XI: Yah! 2:36:00
- XII: One Grand Passion 2:54:03
- XIII: He 3:07:37
- XIV: Principally Letters 3:26:57
- XV: When the Heart Is Young 3:41:15
- XVI: When Fortune Smiles 3:51:59
- XVII: Idylls of Youth 4:08:55
- XVIII: As Short as I Wish Had Been the Majority of Sermons to Which I Have Been Forced to Give Ear 4:32:05
- XIX: The 9th of November 1896 4:37:50
- XX: Same Yarn (Continued) 4:55:07
- XXI: My Unladylike Behaviour Again 5:14:16
- XXII: Sweet Seventeen 5:24:42
- XXIII: “Ah, for One Hour of Burning Love, ’Tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect!” 5:44:46
- XXIV: Thou Knowest Not What a Day May Bring Forth 6:03:08
- XXV: Because? 6:12:44
- XXVI: Boast Not Thyself of Tomorrow 6:23:34
- XXVII: My Journey 6:42:37
- XXVIII: To Life 6:48:39
- XXIX: To Life (Continued) 7:05:30
- XXX: Where Ignorance Is Bliss, ’Tis Folly to Be Wise 7:33:16
- XXXI: Mr. M’Swat and I Have a Bust-Up 7:44:28
- XXXII: Ta-Ta to Barney’s Gap 8:01:58
- XXXIII: Back at Possum Gully 8:08:48
- XXXIV: But Absent Friends Are Soon Forgot 8:18:54
- XXXV: The 3rd of December 1898 8:33:36
- XXXVI: Once Upon a Time, When the Days Were Long and Hot 8:44:32
- XXXVII: He That Despiseth Little Things, Shall Fall Little by Little 9:08:59
- XXXVIII: A Tale That Is Told and a Day That Is Done 9:18:13
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My Brilliant Career is a classic Australian work published in 1901 by Stella Miles Franklin, with an introduction by Henry Lawson. A thinly veiled autobiographical novel, it paints a vivid and sometimes grim picture of rural Australian life in the late 19th Century.
Sybylla Melvyn is the daughter of a man who falls into grinding poverty through inadvised speculation before becoming a hopeless drunk unable to make a living from a small dairy farm. Sybylla longs for the intellectual things in life such as books and music. She wants to become a writer and rebels against the constraints of her life. For a short period she is allowed to stay with her better-off relatives, and there she attracts the attentions of a handsome and rich neighbour, Harold Beecham. The course of true love, however, does not run smoothly for this very independent young woman.
The author, like many other women writers of the time, adopted a version of her name which suggested that she was male in order to get published. Today, the Miles Franklin Award is Australia’s premier literary award, with a companion award, the Stella, open only to women authors.
My Brilliant Career was made into a well-regarded movie in 1979. Directed by Gillian Armstrong, it features Judy Davis as Sybylla and Sam Neil as Harry Beecham.