My Brilliant Career: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

My Brilliant Career, credited to Miles Franklin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of My Brilliant Career, by Miles Franklin. Sybella "There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I am one of a class, the individuals of which have no time for plots in their life, but have all they can do to get their work done without indulging in such a luxury". Like the author Miles Franklin, Sybella grows up in the bush , and as her family's fortunes decline , so her feelings rise that life should hold more for her than the relentless hard physical work farming marginal land in times of drought.(Summary by Annise)

Recording facts

• Recording title: My Brilliant Career
• Author credits: Miles Franklin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 9:13:25

Catalogue topics

• LibriVox,audiobook,fiction,australia

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 00 - Preface and Introduction — 5:20
2. 01 - I Remember, I Remember — 7:51
3. 02 - An Introduction to Possum Gully — 6:56
4. 03 - A Lifeless Life — 10:02
5. 04 - A Career which soon Careered to an End — 9:41
6. 05 - Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles — 15:53
7. 06 - Revolt — 14:58
8. 07 - Was E'er a Rose Without Its Thorn? — 19:50
9. 08 - Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah! — 19:04
10. 09 - Aunt Helen's Recipe — 14:45
11. 10 - Everard Grey — 17:05
12. 11 - Yah! — 17:42
13. 12 - One Grand Passion — 13:13
14. 13 - He — 19:20
15. 14 - Principally Letters — 13:50
16. 15 - When the Heart is Young — 13:07
17. 16 - When Fortune Smiles — 20:24
18. 17 - Idylls of Youth — 27:36
19. 18 - As Short as I Wish had been the Majority of Sermons to which I have been Forced to give Ear — 6:53
20. 19 - The 9th of November 1896 — 20:21
21. 20 - Same Yarn (Cont.) — 22:23
22. 21 - My Unladylike Behaviour Again — 12:35
23. 22 - Sweet Seventeen — 17:41
24. 23 - Ah, for one Hour of Burning Love, ’tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect! — 16:13

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