{"product_id":"my-brilliant-career-miles-franklin-9791043135552","title":"My Brilliant Career","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMy Brilliant Career\u003c\/strong\u003e is a classic Australian work published in \u003cstrong\u003e1901\u003c\/strong\u003e by \u003cstrong\u003eStella Miles\u003c\/strong\u003e Franklin, with an introduction by \u003cstrong\u003eHenry Lawson\u003c\/strong\u003e. A thinly-veiled autobiographical novel, it paints a vivid and sometimes grim picture of rural Australian life in the late 19th Century.\u003cstrong\u003eSybylla Melvyn\u003c\/strong\u003e is the daughter of a man who falls into grinding poverty through inadvised speculation before becoming a hopeless drunk unable to make a living from a small dairy farm. Sybylla longs for the intellectual things in life such as books and music. She wants to become a writer and rebels against the constraints of her life. For a short period she is allowed to stay with her better-off relatives, and there she attracts the attentions of a handsome and rich neighbour, \u003cstrong\u003eHarold Beecham\u003c\/strong\u003e. The course of true love, however, does not run smoothly for this very independent young woman.The author, like many other women writers of the time, adopted a version of her name which suggested that she was male in order to get published. Today, the \u003cstrong\u003eMiles Franklin Award\u003c\/strong\u003e is Australia's premier literary award, with a companion award, the Stella, open only to women authors.\u003cstrong\u003eMy Brilliant Career\u003c\/strong\u003e was made into a well-regarded movie in \u003cstrong\u003e1979\u003c\/strong\u003e. Directed by \u003cstrong\u003eGillian Armstrong\u003c\/strong\u003e, it features \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudy Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e as Sybylla and \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSam Neil\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e as \u003cstrong\u003eHarry Beecham\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miles Franklin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9791043135552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Les Prairies Numeriques\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d","brand":"Miles Franklin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084118302975,"sku":"9791043135552","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-brilliant-career-miles-franklin-9791043135552","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}