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
Duration:00:00:05
Preface
Duration:00:01:34
Introduction
Duration:00:01:38
Special Notice
Duration:00:01:06
My Brilliant Career
Duration:00:00:03
I: I Remember, I Remember
Duration:00:07:39
II: An Introduction to ’Possum Gully
Duration:00:05:35
III: A Lifeless Life
Duration:00:09:14
IV: A Career Which Soon Careered to an End
Duration:00:08:45
V: Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles
Duration:00:09:52
A Drought Idyll
Duration:00:06:35
VI: Revolt
Duration:00:14:39
VII: Was E’er a Rose Without Its Thorn?
Duration:00:10:36
Self Analysis
Duration:00:09:41
VIII: ’Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!
Duration:00:20:22
IX: Aunt Helen’s Recipe
Duration:00:14:41
X: Everard Grey
Duration:00:18:22
XI: Yah!
Duration:00:16:42
XII: One Grand Passion
Duration:00:12:20
XIII: He
Duration:00:17:43
XIV: Principally Letters
Duration:00:13:08
XV: When the Heart Is Young
Duration:00:09:37
XVI: When Fortune Smiles
Duration:00:15:36
XVII: Idylls of Youth
Duration:00:21:22
XVIII: As Short as I Wish Had Been the Majority of Sermons to Which I Have Been Forced to Give Ear
Duration:00:05:10
XIX: The 9th of November 1896
Duration:00:16:25
XX: Same Yarn (Continued)
Duration:00:17:32
XXI: My Unladylike Behaviour Again
Duration:00:09:43
XXII: Sweet Seventeen
Duration:00:17:53
XXIII: “Ah, for One Hour of Burning Love, ’Tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect!”
Duration:00:16:12
XXIV: Thou Knowest Not What a Day May Bring Forth
Duration:00:08:30
XXV: Because?
Duration:00:09:28
XXVI: Boast Not Thyself of Tomorrow
Duration:00:17:05
XXVII: My Journey
Duration:00:05:37
XXVIII: To Life
Duration:00:14:47
XXIX: To Life (Continued)
Duration:00:25:49
XXX: Where Ignorance Is Bliss, ’Tis Folly to Be Wise
Duration:00:10:11
XXXI: Mr. M’Swat and I Have a Bust-Up
Duration:00:15:26
XXXII: Ta-Ta to Barney’s Gap
Duration:00:05:56
XXXIII: Back at ’Possum Gully
Duration:00:08:48
XXXIV: But Absent Friends Are Soon Forgot
Duration:00:13:11
XXXV: The 3rd of December 1898
Duration:00:10:00
XXXVI: Once Upon a Time, When the Days Were Long and Hot
Duration:00:21:28
XXXVII: He That Despiseth Little Things, Shall Fall Little by Little
Duration:00:00:07
I
Duration:00:05:18
II
Duration:00:02:29
XXXVIII: A Tale That Is Told and a Day That Is Done
Duration:00:04:37