{"product_id":"my-brilliant-career-von-miles-franklin","title":"My Brilliant Career","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy Brilliant Career is a classic Australian work published in 1901 by Stella Miles Franklin, with an introduction by Henry Lawson. A thinly-veiled autobiographical novel, it paints a vivid and sometimes grim picture of rural Australian life in the late 19th Century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSybylla Melvyn is the daughter of a man who falls into grinding poverty through inadvised speculation before becoming a hopeless drunk unable to make a living from a small dairy farm. Sybylla longs for the intellectual things in life such as books and music. She wants to become a writer and rebels against the constraints of her life. For a short period she is allowed to stay with her better-off relatives, and there she attracts the attentions of a handsome and rich neighbour, Harold Beecham. The course of true love, however, does not run smoothly for this very independent young woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author, like many other women writers of the time, adopted a version of her name which suggested that she was male in order to get published. Today, the Miles Franklin Award is Australiäs premier literary award, with a companion award, the Stella, open only to women authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Brilliant Career was made into a well-regarded movie in 1979. Directed by Gillian Armstrong, it features Judy Davis as Sybylla and Sam Neil as Harry Beecham.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041802708\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041802708","offer_id":46903779885381,"sku":"9791041802708","price":23.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/4f41406e-88cd-4e78-b448-909e8015f878.jpg?v=1778218326","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/my-brilliant-career-von-miles-franklin","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}