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My Brilliant Career

My Brilliant Career

by Miles Franklin

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Author
Franklin, Miles, 1879-1954
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Bildungsromans
Category
Text
eBook-No.
11620
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11620
Release Date
March 1, 2004
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.My Brilliant Career — by Miles Franklin — 1901
  2. 2.Contents
  3. 3.PREFACE
  4. 4.INTRODUCTION — SPECIAL NOTICE
  5. 5.CHAPTER ONE I Remember, I Remember
  6. 6.CHAPTER TWO An Introduction to Possum Gully
  7. 7.CHAPTER THREE A Lifeless Life
  8. 8.CHAPTER FOUR A Career Which Soon Careered To An End
  9. 9.CHAPTER FIVE Disjointed Sketches And Grumbles — A DROUGHT IDYLL
  10. 10.CHAPTER SIX Revolt
  11. 11.CHAPTER SEVEN Was E’er a Rose Without Its Thorn? — SELF-ANALYSIS
  12. 12.CHAPTER EIGHT Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!
  13. 13.CHAPTER NINE Aunt Helen’s Recipe
  14. 14.CHAPTER TEN Everard Grey
  15. 15.CHAPTER ELEVEN Yah!
  16. 16.CHAPTER TWELVE One Grand Passion
  17. 17.CHAPTER THIRTEEN He
  18. 18.CHAPTER FOURTEEN Principally Letters
  19. 19.CHAPTER FIFTEEN When the Heart is Young
  20. 20.CHAPTER SIXTEEN When Fortune Smiles
  21. 21.CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Idylls of Youth
  22. 22.CHAPTER EIGHTEEN As Short as I Wish had been the Majority of Sermons to which I have been Forced to give Ear
  23. 23.CHAPTER NINETEEN The 9th of November 1896
  24. 24.CHAPTER TWENTY Same Yarn—continued
  25. 25.CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE My Unladylike Behaviour Again
  26. 26.CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Sweet Seventeen
  27. 27.CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Ah, For One Hour of Burning Love, ’Tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect!
  28. 28.CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Thou Knowest Not What a Day May Bring Forth
  29. 29.CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Because?
  30. 30.CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Boast Not Thyself of Tomorrow
  31. 31.CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN My Journey
  32. 32.CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT To Life
  33. 33.CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE To Life—continued
  34. 34.CHAPTER THIRTY Where Ignorance is Bliss, ’Tis Folly to be Wise
  35. 35.CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Mr M’Swat and I Have a Bust-up
  36. 36.CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Ta-ta to Barney’s Gap
  37. 37.CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Back at Possum Gully
  38. 38.CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR But Absent Friends are Soon Forgot
  39. 39.CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE The 3rd of December 1898
  40. 40.CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Once Upon a Time, When the Days Were Long and Hot
  41. 41.CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN He that despiseth little things, shall fall little by little — I — II
  42. 42.CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT A Tale that is told and a Day that is done

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