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  • My Brilliant Career
    Miles Franklin
    Miles Franklin’s fierce and funny My Brilliant Career is the passionate semi-autobiographical novel of a young woman living in the Australian bush who wants more than the life she’s been given.Sybylla Penelope Melvyn had no intention of accepting the hand she’d been dealt. Living deep in the Australian bush, her family is plunged further into poverty when drought and her father...
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    27,66 €

  • Some Everyday Folk and Dawn (Cram Edition)
    Miles Franklin
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Some Everyday Folk and Dawn pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Miles Franklin’s 'Some Everyday Folk and Dawn' offers a glimpse into Australian domestic and rural life through the eyes of a compelling female protagonist. A significant work of Australian literat...
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    27,00 €

  • Old Blastus of Bandicoot
    Miles Franklin
    A dust-laden road winds through the sunburnt paddocks, where the tensions of family and community simmer beneath the relentless Australian sky. In a small country township, the quiet rhythm of pastoral life is fractured by a fierce dispute, laying bare the intricate ties and rivalries that define rural community drama. Here, amid the gum trees and sprawling sheep runs, a story ...
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    20,55 €

  • All That Swagger
    Miles Franklin
    A dust-laden track winds through the heart of rural Australia, where generations of one family carve out their destinies against a landscape both unforgiving and achingly beautiful. In the shifting light of early twentieth-century Australia, lives are shaped by drought, ambition, and the relentless push of progress, as each new generation faces the challenge of forging identity...
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    26,96 €

  • Bring the Monkey
    Miles Franklin
    A heavy mist coils over the lawns of an English country estate as guests gather for a weekend retreat, their laughter echoing through grand halls already thick with secrets. Beneath the veneer of upper-class civility, tension simmers-old grievances, sharp wit, and an unexpected guest with a tail. In this golden age mystery, a murder shatters the fragile calm of the house, thrus...
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    19,72 €

  • Cockatoos
    Miles Franklin
    A sudden flight of white cockatoos wheels over the sun-baked paddocks, unsettling the hush of rural Australia and signalling the shifting rhythms of a family’s fortunes. In the heart of the countryside, amid the dust and promise of the interwar period, a young woman’s coming of age unfolds against the backdrop of a landscape both harsh and hauntingly beautiful. Through the tang...
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    23,82 €

  • Up the Country
    Miles Franklin
    A haze of eucalyptus drifts over the paddocks, where the relentless sun beats down on red earth and every day is a test of endurance and spirit. In the far reaches of rural Australia, women carve out lives against the sweep of the bush, contending with not only the harshness of the land but the expectations and constraints of pioneering life. This evocative novel draws readers ...
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    22,14 €

  • My Career Goes Bung
    Miles Franklin
    A young woman stands on the sun-bleached verandah of her family’s rural Australian homestead, torn between the wild promise of her own ambitions and the stifling expectations of early twentieth-century society. With a satirical eye and a sharply humorous voice, this coming of age novel peels back the layers of small-town life, exposing both its comic absurdities and its quiet c...
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    20,61 €

  • Ten Creeks Run
    Miles Franklin
    A river winds through the bush, its quiet persistence mirroring the lives of those who settle its banks, where hardship and hope are never far apart. In the heart of rural Australia, a pioneering family faces the relentless demands of the land, forging bonds and identities amid the tangled creeks, the scent of eucalyptus, and the ever-present hush of early twentieth-century iso...
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    23,78 €

  • Back to Bool Bool
    Miles Franklin
    Dust swirls in the early morning light as the train slows, drawing city-weary souls back to the undulating paddocks and quiet streets of rural Australia. Beneath the surface calm, old loyalties, buried tensions, and the ache of return pulse through the lives of a family whose fortunes have long been entwined with the rhythms of bush life. Set against the backdrop of a country t...
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    24,54 €

  • Prelude to Waking
    Miles Franklin
    In the fog-laden streets and drawing rooms of post-World War One London, a restless generation drifts between hope and disillusionment. Here, the pulse of early twentieth century fiction beats with both wit and melancholy, as the boundaries of British society are scrutinised and gently mocked. With a modernist sensibility, this novel unspools the lives of expatriates and dreame...
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    20,52 €

  • My Brilliant Career (Cram Edition)
    Miles Franklin
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of My Brilliant Career pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Miles Franklin’s 'My Brilliant Career' is a classic bildungsroman that captures the spirit of turn-of-the-century Australia. This meticulously prepared edition brings to life a timeless story of a young wo...
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    27,03 €

  • My Brilliant Career
    Miles Franklin
    My Brilliant Career is a classic Australian work published in 1901 by Stella Miles Franklin, with an introduction by Henry Lawson. A thinly-veiled autobiographical novel, it paints a vivid and sometimes grim picture of rural Australian life in the late 19th Century.Sybylla Melvyn is the daughter of a man who falls into grinding poverty through inadvised speculation before becom...
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    23,69 €

  • Childhood at Brindabella
    Miles Franklin
    This delightful autobiography is the story of Miles Franklin’s first ten years, spent partly on her parent’s station in the mountain valley of Brindabella, not far from the present day Canberra. It is a world of the high places and graceful living which she portrayed in her novels, here recaptured with unfaltering warmth and simplicity. The most charming of Miles Franklin’s wri...
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    20,07 €

  • Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
    Miles Franklin
    Miles Franklin’s 'Some Everyday Folk and Dawn' offers a glimpse into Australian domestic and rural life through the eyes of a compelling female protagonist. A significant work of Australian literature, this novel explores themes of coming-of-age within a specific cultural heritage.This meticulously prepared edition invites readers to experience a timeless story of ordinary live...
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    23,13 €

  • My Brilliant Career
    Miles Franklin
    My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin is a semi-autobiographical novel that tells the story of Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong young woman growing up in rural Australia at the turn of the 20th century. Sybylla struggles against societal expectations, rejecting traditional roles of marriage and domesticity in favor of independence and personal fulfillment. Through her defiance and ...
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    16,62 €

  • Ma brillante carrière
    Miles Franklin
    Ce livre classique a été initialement publié il y a plusieurs décennies sous le titre 'My Brilliant Career'. Il a maintenant été traduit par Writat en langue française pour ses lecteurs francophones. Chez Writat, nous sommes passionnés par la préservation du patrimoine littéraire du passé. Nous avons traduit ce livre en français afin que les générations présentes et futures pui...
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    20,07 €

  • My Brilliant Career
    Miles Franklin
    My Brilliant Career, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copi...
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    19,67 €

  • Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
    Miles Franklin
    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scan...
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    27,09 €

  • My Brilliant Career
    Miles Franklin
    Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 - 19 September 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 Aus...
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    16,27 €

  • My Brilliant Career
    Miles Franklin
    Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 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 Aust...
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    17,58 €

  • Childhood at Brindabella
    Miles Franklin
    This delightful autobiography is the story of Miles Franklin's first ten years, spent partly on her parent's station in the mountain valley of Brindabella, not far from the present day Canberra. It is a world of the high places and graceful living which she portrayed in her novels, here recaptured with unfaltering warmth and simplicity.The most charming of Miles Frankli...
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    14,52 €

  • My Brilliant Career
    Miles Franklin
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  • My Brilliant Career
    Miles Franklin
    Alternately hilarious and heartwarming, this beloved coming-of-age novel from the Australian outback brings together unforgettable characters with clarity and truth, all told in a unique young woman’s voice. My Brilliant Career was made into an award-winning film starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill. ...
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    17,20 €

  • Bring the Monkey
    Miles Franklin
    Bring the Monkey is a spoof of the English country-house mystery. The novel includes a host of characters, not to mention a monkey called Percy. Unexpectedly the room is suddenly plunged into darkness a bracelet goes missing and finally a dead body is found. Bring the Monkey is a quirky novel that digs at social conventions, class and snobbery. Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin...
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    11,28 €

  • My Brilliant Career
    Miles Franklin
    My Brilliant Career is a 1901 novel about a headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia. Drought and a series of poor business decisions reduce her family to subsistence level. She is sent to live with her grandmother where life is more comfortable. There she meets wealthy young Harry Beecham, who loves her and proposes marriage but Sybylla is unable to believe that he could ...
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    18,64 €

  • Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
    Miles Franklin
    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn is a terrifically funny novel written in a rambling style. The vote has come to women in Australia and in the small town of Noonoon two male candidates have posited themselves, one as the 'women’s' candidate, the other as the 'men’s.' The women’s candidate spends his campaign flirting, while the men’s candidate, stomps around, chops a lot of wood, an...
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    12,91 €

  • A Legacy to Leave Our Youth
    Antoinette V. Franklin / Antoinette VFranklin / John 'Mule' Miles / John Mule Miles
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    14,02 €

  • My Brilliant Career
    Miles Franklin
    My Brilliant Career is a classic Australian novel written by Miles Franklin. It tells the story of a headstrong and independent young woman named Sybylla Melvyn, who is determined to follow her dreams of becoming a writer despite the expectations of her family and society. Set in rural Australia in the late 19th century, the novel explores themes of gender roles, class, and the...
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    28,78 €