My Brilliant Career : Text Classics

This is not a romance—I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarn—a real yarn. Oh!

Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tale of Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl—passionate, endearing, stubborn, honest—and her fraught journey from rags to riches to rags.

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Watch clips from the 1979 film production of My Brilliant Career on australianscreen, a website operated by the National Film and Sound Archive.

Praise for My Brilliant Career:

‘The book is true to Australia—the truest I ever read.’

Henry Lawson