My Brilliant Career
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About This Book
A coming-of-age story set in the Australian bush, originally published in 1901. Sybylla Melvin is a misfit. She barely endures the dreary life of dairy farming in a family that can hardly make ends meet. Out of the blue, she is invited to move back to the family property, Caddagat, to live with Grannie, Aunt Helen, and Uncle Jay Jay. With a cast of interesting neighbors and friends, Sybylla finally seems to discover hope in the world. She is nourished by thoughtful conversation, books, and music. Harold Beecham's love, however, throws her into indecision and painful tension. Will she be satisf...
Chapters (47)
- My Brilliant Career
- 1901
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- SPECIAL NOTICE
- CHAPTER ONE I Remember, I Remember
- CHAPTER TWO An Introduction to Possum Gully
- CHAPTER THREE A Lifeless Life
- CHAPTER FOUR A Career Which Soon Careered To An End
- CHAPTER FIVE Disjointed Sketches And Grumbles
- A DROUGHT IDYLL
- CHAPTER SIX Revolt
- CHAPTER SEVEN Was E’er a Rose Without Its Thorn?
- SELF-ANALYSIS
- CHAPTER EIGHT Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!
- CHAPTER NINE Aunt Helen’s Recipe
- CHAPTER TEN Everard Grey
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Yah!
- CHAPTER TWELVE One Grand Passion
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN He
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Principally Letters
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN When the Heart is Young
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN When Fortune Smiles
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Idylls of Youth
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN As Short as I Wish had been the Majority of Sermons to which I have been Forced to give Ear
- CHAPTER NINETEEN The 9th of November 1896
- CHAPTER TWENTY Same Yarn—continued
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE My Unladylike Behaviour Again
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Sweet Seventeen
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Ah, For One Hour of Burning Love, ’Tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect!
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Thou Knowest Not What a Day May Bring Forth
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Because?
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Boast Not Thyself of Tomorrow
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN My Journey
- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT To Life
- CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE To Life—continued
- CHAPTER THIRTY Where Ignorance is Bliss, ’Tis Folly to be Wise
- CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Mr M’Swat and I Have a Bust-up
- CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Ta-ta to Barney’s Gap
- CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Back at Possum Gully
- CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR But Absent Friends are Soon Forgot
- CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE The 3rd of December 1898
- CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Once Upon a Time, When the Days Were Long and Hot
- CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN He that despiseth little things, shall fall little by little
- I
- II
- CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT A Tale that is told and a Day that is done
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