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1 online resource (259 pages) |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; 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 Grumbles; 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 |
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN: When the Heart Is YoungCHAPTER 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 Ninth of November 1896; CHAPTER TWENTY: Same Yarn--Continued; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: My Unladylike Behavior 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? |
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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Boast Not Thyself of TomorrowCHAPTER 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 Third of December 1898; CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Once Upon a Time, When the Days Were Long and Hot |
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CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: He That Despiseth Little Things, Shall Fall Little by LittleCHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: A Tale That Is Told and a Day That Is Done |
| Summary |
Miles Franklin's 1901 ground-breaking debut, and an instant sensation. Meet Sybylla Melvyn, the young girl hungering for life and love in outback New South Wales |
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Print version record |
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Young women -- Fiction
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Young women
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Fiction
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographical fiction
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Bildungsromans
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Fiction
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Autobiographical fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781742699448 |
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1742699448 |
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