My Brilliant Career - 9781548303013
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ISBN13:
9781548303013
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A few months before I left Australia I got a letter from the bush signed "Miles Franklin", saying that the writer had written a novel, but knew nothing of editors and publishers, and asking me to read and advise. Something about the letter, which was written in a strong original hand, attracted me, so I sent for the MS., and one dull afternoon I started to read it. I hadn't read three pages when I saw what you will no doubt see at once-that the story had been written by a girl. And as I went on I saw that the work was Australian-born of the bush. I don't know about the girlishly emotional parts of the book-I leave that to girl readers to judge; but the descriptions of bush life and scenery came startlingly, painfully real to me, and I know that, as far as they are concerned, the book is true to Australia-the truest I ever read. I wrote to Miles Franklin, and she confessed that she was a girl. I saw her before leaving Sydney. She is just a little bush girl, barely twenty-one yet, and has scarcely ever been out of the bush in her life. She has lived her book, and I feel proud of it for the sake of the country I came from, where people toil and bake and suffer and are kind; where every second sun-burnt bushman is a sympathetic humorist, with the sadness of the bush deep in his eyes and a brave grin for the worst of times, and where every third bushman is a poet, with a big heart that keeps his pockets empty.
- | Author: Miles Franklin
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Jun 28, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 244 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1548303011
- | ISBN-13: 9781548303013
- Author:
- Miles Franklin
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Jun 28, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 244 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1548303011
- ISBN-13:
- 9781548303013