Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
My Brilliant Career de Miles Franklin

My Brilliant Career

Autor Miles Franklin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 ian 2025
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. A few months before I left Australia I got a letter from the bush signed Miles Franklin, saying that the writer had written a novel, but knew nothing of editors and publishers, and asking me to read and advise. Something about the letter, which was written in a strong original hand, attracted me, so I sent for the MS., and one dull afternoon I started to read it. I hadn't read three pages when I saw what you will no doubt see at once that the story had been written by a girl. And as I went on I saw that the work was Australian born of the bush. I don't know about the girlishly emotional parts of the book I leave that to girl readers to judge; but the descriptions of bush life and scenery came startlingly, painfully real to me, and I know that, as far as they are concerned, the book is true to Australia - the truest I ever read. I wrote to Miles Franklin, and she confessed that she was a girl. I saw her before leaving Sydney. She is just a little bush girl, barely twenty-one yet, and has scarcely ever been out of the bush in her life. She has lived her book, and I feel proud of it for the sake of the country I came from, where people toil and bake and suffer and are kind; where every second sun-burnt bushman is a sympathetic humorist, with the sadness of the bush deep in his eyes and a brave grin for the worst of times, and where every third bushman is a poet, with a big heart that keeps his pockets empty. Henry Lawson England, April 1901
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 12089 lei

Puncte Express: 181
Paperback (13) de la 5142 lei
Hardback 12089 lei

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 31 august-14 septembrie
Livrare express 15-21 august pentru 2741 lei

Livrare prin curier în România Termenul estimat este afișat lângă disponibilitate.
Transport gratuit de la 40000 lei Plată online sau ramburs, în funcție de opțiunile comenzii.
Retur gratuit în 14 zile Comandă securizată și suport în română.
 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241699584
ISBN-10: 0241699584
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 138 x 201 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Clothbound Classics

Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
NOW A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FILM WITH BAFTA WINNING ACTRESS, JUDY DAVIS
'A splendidly vivid display . . . its sharply detailed, entirely convincing voice' THE TIMES
'An insightful exploration of class, gender and youthful frustration' ANITA SETHI, GUARDIAN
'It combines linguistic surprise and inertness in a way possible only to genius' NEW YORK TIMES
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 think, to sing, but most of all to do great things.
Suddenly her life is transformed. Whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property, she falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. And soon she finds herself choosing between everything a conventional life offers and her own plans for a brilliant career.

Recenzii

Written by a teenager living in the Australian bush in the 1890s and originally published in 1901, Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career is a candid representation of the aspirations and frustrations of a young woman constrained by middle-class social arrangements, especially the pressure to marry. My Brilliant Career has continued to delight readers and to cause them to locate their personal realities in the struggle of Franklin’s heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, to recognize and to pursue what she most wants and needs in her life.
In addition to the rich selection of appendices, this edition includes maps of early twentieth-century Australia and a critical introduction that outlines political and economic developments relevant to the novel, traces the literary landscape upon which My Brilliant Career first appeared, and describes the reception and interpretation given the novel in the century after its initial publication (including the celebrated 1979 film adaptation).

“Bruce K. Martin’s deep understanding of Australian history and literature informs both his textual analyses and his editorial choices. He strikes a praiseworthy balance in his introduction—writing with the precision that will appeal to scholars and the clarity that will keep it accessible to students. I particularly appreciate the book’s added features, such as the chronology, appendices, and bibliography. The appendices are judiciously selected, and provide readers with a clear sense of the climate of the book’s production and reception. With Martin’s expert guidance, the reader deftly navigates the work’s many complexities.” — Linda Watts, University of Washington Bothell

Notă biografică

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin (1879-1954) was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936. She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations. She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major literary award known as the Miles Franklin Award. Australian illustrator Brian Harrison-Lever was a designer in the television industry before spending fourteen years at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, lecturing in design and drawing. He retired from education in 1997 and moved to from Western Australia to Tasmania, where he now works as a freelance illustrator. Books he has illustrated include the war-based Australian stories In Flanders Fields and Photographs in the Mud, and Call of the Osprey, about an old seafarer renovating a derelict steam-boat. James and Gillian worked together at ELT materials developer International Language Teaching Services, and now run their own ELT business at ELT Essentials in Australia's New South Wales. James is the author of numerous successful books and series for English language learners, including the fiction readers The Young Riders and Planespotting (a finalist in the 2009 Language Learner Literature Awards). Having been a teacher for many years, Gillian's books for English language learners around the world include Focus on Reading, Mastery in Reading, Grammar Club, Which Side Are You On?, Listen to This, Pop Culture and The New Millennium.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Map 1: Australia and New Zealand in 1904
Map 2: Miles Franklin Country
Introduction
Miles Franklin and My Brilliant Career: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
My Brilliant Career
Appendix A: Correspondence Related to the Publication of My Brilliant Career
  1. Miles Franklin to Angus & Robertson (30 March 1899)
  2. Miles Franklin to Henry Lawson (19 November 1899)
  3. Henry Lawson to Miles Franklin (January 1900)
  4. Miles Franklin to Henry Lawson (19 April 1900)
  5. William Blackwood to James B. Pinker (29 January 1901)
  6. Miles Franklin to William Blackwood (6 February 1901)
  7. James B. Pinker to Miles Franklin (15 April 1901)
  8. Miles Franklin to James B. Pinker (18 November 1901)
  9. James B. Pinker to Miles Franklin (30 December 1901)
Appendix B: Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Australian Feminist Perspectives
  1. From Ada Cambridge, Unspoken Thoughts (1887)
    1. “Fallen”
    2. “An Answer”
  2. From Louisa Lawson, The Dawn (June 1889)
    1. “Unhappy Love Matches”
  3. From Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Australian Woman’s Sphere (January 1902)
    1. “The Two Laws”
  4. From Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies (1902)
    1. “The Chosen Vessel”
  5. Rose Scott (1847-1925)
    1. “Woman to Man”
  6. From Miles Franklin, Some Everyday Folk and Dawn (1909)
Appendix C: Early Responses to My Brilliant Career
  1. Henry Lawson, “Preface” to the first edition of My Brilliant Career (1901)
  2. The Academy (July/December 1901)
  3. “Recent Novels,” The Times (23 August 1901)
  4. “A Bookful of Sunlight,” The Bulletin (23 September 1901)
  5. The Weekly Critical Review (17 September 1903)
  6. “Miles Franklin,” Australian Woman’s Sphere (15 April 1904)
Select Bibliography