My Brilliant Career (Text Classics) (VMC Designer Collection) (Study Texts S.)

by Miles Franklin

Carmen Callil (Introduction)

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First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the live of sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, she simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. For Sybylla longs for a more refined, aesthetic lifestyle - to read, to...

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  • ISBN10 0860681939
  • ISBN13 9780860681939
  • Publish Date 14 July 1980
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 11 March 2022
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Virago Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 256
  • Language English