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My Brilliant Career / My Career Goes Bung (edition 1992)

by Miles Franklin

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In this ironically titled and riotous first novel by Miles Franklin, originally published in 1901, Sybylla tells the story of growing up passionate and rebellious in rural NSW. Sybylla will neither marry nor teach, but that doesn't stop her from falling in love, and it doesn't make the choices any easier. Australian author.… (more)
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Title:My Brilliant Career / My Career Goes Bung
Authors:Miles Franklin
Info:HarperCollins Australia (1992), Paperback, 450 pages
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My Career Goes Bung

This tale's as true as as true can be,
For what is truth or lies?
So often much that's told by me
When seen through other eyes,
Becomes thereby unlike so much
These others tell you,
And if things be the same as such,
What is a scribe to do?

Why, tell his tale of course, my friend,
Or hold his tongue for aye,
Or wait till fictive matters mend,
Which may be by-and-bye,
So here's a tale of things a-near
That you may read and lend
Without a fear - you'll need no tear -
It hasn't any end.
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Introduction : When Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin began writing My Brilliant Career on 20 September 1898, she was 18 years old. The book was finished in first draft just over six months later, on 25 March 1899.
My Brilliant Career

My dear fellow Australians, Just a few lines to tell you that this story is all about myself - for no other purpose do I write it.

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Miles Franklin
Australia
My Career Goes Bung

To all young Australian writers
Greetings!
Precocious effort in art is naturally imitative, but in localities remote from literary activity there is no one for the embryo writer to copy. ... The literalness with which My Brilliant Career was taken was a shock to one of any imagination.
My Career Goes Bung was planned as a corrective.
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In this ironically titled and riotous first novel by Miles Franklin, originally published in 1901, Sybylla tells the story of growing up passionate and rebellious in rural NSW. Sybylla will neither marry nor teach, but that doesn't stop her from falling in love, and it doesn't make the choices any easier. Australian author.

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