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My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin · 1901

Original text in English.

A penniless girl from the bush wants to write, in a time and a country that have no use for it.

Novel · 39 parts · about 88 000 words · about 6 h 21 of reading

Contents

1. INTRODUCTION2 min
2. CHAPTER ONE — I Remember, I Remember6 min
3. CHAPTER TWO — An Introduction to Possum Gully4 min
4. CHAPTER THREE — A Lifeless Life7 min
5. CHAPTER FOUR — A Career Which Soon Careered To An End6 min
6. CHAPTER FIVE — Disjointed Sketches And Grumbles12 min
7. CHAPTER SIX — Revolt11 min
8. CHAPTER SEVEN — Was E'er a Rose Without Its Thorn?15 min
9. CHAPTER EIGHT — Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!15 min
10. CHAPTER NINE — Aunt Helen's Recipe11 min
11. CHAPTER TEN — Everard Grey13 min
12. CHAPTER ELEVEN — Yah!12 min
13. CHAPTER TWELVE — One Grand Passion9 min
14. CHAPTER THIRTEEN — He13 min
15. CHAPTER FOURTEEN — Principally Letters10 min
16. CHAPTER FIFTEEN — When the Heart is Young7 min
17. CHAPTER SIXTEEN — When Fortune Smiles11 min
18. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN — Idylls of Youth16 min
19. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN — As Short as I Wish had been the Majority of Sermons to which I have been Forced to give Ear4 min
20. CHAPTER NINETEEN — The 9th of November 189612 min
21. CHAPTER TWENTY — Same Yarn—continued13 min
22. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE — My Unladylike Behaviour Again7 min
23. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO — Sweet Seventeen13 min
24. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE — Ah, For One Hour of Burning Love, 'tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect!12 min
25. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR — Thou Knowest Not What a Day May Bring Forth6 min
26. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE — Because?7 min
27. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX — Boast Not Thyself of Tomorrow13 min
28. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN — My Journey4 min
29. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT — To Life11 min
30. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE — To Life—continued19 min
31. CHAPTER THIRTY — Where Ignorance is Bliss, 'Tis Folly to be Wise8 min
32. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE — Mr M'Swat and I Have a Bust-up12 min
33. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO — Ta-Ta to Barney's Gap5 min
34. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE — Back at Possum Gully7 min
35. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR — But Absent Friends are Soon Forgot10 min
36. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE — The 3rd of December 18988 min
37. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX — Once Upon a Time, when the days were long and hot16 min
38. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN — He that despiseth little things, shall fall little by little6 min
39. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT — A Tale that is told and a Day that is done3 min

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