My Brilliant Career (Unabridged)
Miles Franklin
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
In outback Australia, Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong and imaginative teenager, chafes under the limitations of her rural life. Trapped on a struggling farm with a harsh reality, she craves the world found in books and dreams of a different future. Offered the chance to marry the wealthy and kind Harold Beecham, Sybylla hesitates, unsure of her feelings and unwilling to compromise her independence. To escape the monotony and support her family, she takes a job as a governess, facing new challenges and complexities in her pursuit of a "brilliant career" on her own terms.
Duration - 8h 28m.
Author - Miles Franklin.
Narrator - Digital Voice Marcus G.
Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2022 Falcon Press ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. In outback Australia, Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong and imaginative teenager, chafes under the limitations of her rural life. Trapped on a struggling farm with a harsh reality, she craves the world found in books and dreams of a different future. Offered the chance to marry the wealthy and kind Harold Beecham, Sybylla hesitates, unsure of her feelings and unwilling to compromise her independence. To escape the monotony and support her family, she takes a job as a governess, facing new challenges and complexities in her pursuit of a "brilliant career" on her own terms. Duration - 8h 28m. Author - Miles Franklin. Narrator - Digital Voice Marcus G. Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025. Copyright - © 2022 Falcon Press ©.
Language:
English
Titlepage
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Preface
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Introduction
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Special Notice
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My Brilliant Career
Duración:00:00:03
I: I Remember, I Remember
Duración:00:07:39
II: An Introduction to ’Possum Gully
Duración:00:05:35
III: A Lifeless Life
Duración:00:09:14
IV: A Career Which Soon Careered to an End
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V: Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles
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A Drought Idyll
Duración:00:06:35
VI: Revolt
Duración:00:14:39
VII: Was E’er a Rose Without Its Thorn?
Duración:00:10:36
Self Analysis
Duración:00:09:41
VIII: ’Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!
Duración:00:20:22
IX: Aunt Helen’s Recipe
Duración:00:14:41
X: Everard Grey
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XI: Yah!
Duración:00:16:42
XII: One Grand Passion
Duración:00:12:20
XIII: He
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XIV: Principally Letters
Duración:00:13:08
XV: When the Heart Is Young
Duración:00:09:37
XVI: When Fortune Smiles
Duración:00:15:36
XVII: Idylls of Youth
Duración:00:21:22
XVIII: As Short as I Wish Had Been the Majority of Sermons to Which I Have Been Forced to Give Ear
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XIX: The 9th of November 1896
Duración:00:16:25
XX: Same Yarn (Continued)
Duración:00:17:32
XXI: My Unladylike Behaviour Again
Duración:00:09:43
XXII: Sweet Seventeen
Duración:00:17:53
XXIII: “Ah, for One Hour of Burning Love, ’Tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect!”
Duración:00:16:12
XXIV: Thou Knowest Not What a Day May Bring Forth
Duración:00:08:30
XXV: Because?
Duración:00:09:28
XXVI: Boast Not Thyself of Tomorrow
Duración:00:17:05
XXVII: My Journey
Duración:00:05:37
XXVIII: To Life
Duración:00:14:47
XXIX: To Life (Continued)
Duración:00:25:49
XXX: Where Ignorance Is Bliss, ’Tis Folly to Be Wise
Duración:00:10:11
XXXI: Mr. M’Swat and I Have a Bust-Up
Duración:00:15:26
XXXII: Ta-Ta to Barney’s Gap
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XXXIII: Back at ’Possum Gully
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XXXIV: But Absent Friends Are Soon Forgot
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XXXV: The 3rd of December 1898
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XXXVI: Once Upon a Time, When the Days Were Long and Hot
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XXXVII: He That Despiseth Little Things, Shall Fall Little by Little
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I
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II
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XXXVIII: A Tale That Is Told and a Day That Is Done
Duración:00:04:37