My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin - ISBN: 9780143105053
Paperback
Defiant young woman seeks love and purpose in the Australian outback.

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    18 May 2011

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Summary

The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic.

Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to Jane Eyre. But the book she produced—a thinly veiled autobiographical novel about a young girl hungering for life and love in the outback—so scandalized her country upon its appearance in 1…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143105053
ISBN-10:0143105051
Author:Miles Franklin, Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:Penguin USA
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:18 May 2011
Weight:221g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 15mm
Series:Penguin Classics
About The Author

Miles Franklin

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

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