My Brilliant Career

My Brilliant Career

by Miles Franklin

1901

Contents

INTRODUCTION 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 CRUMBLES CHAPTER SIX. REVOLT CHAPTER SEVEN. WAS E’ER A ROSE WITHOUT ITS THORN? 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 (Cont.) 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 (Cont.) 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 CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT. A TALE THAT IS TOLD AND A DAY THAT IS DONE