企鹅布面经典系列：弗兰克林：我的璀璨生涯 My Brilliant Career

基本信息

Series:Penguin Clothbound Classics

Format:Hardback 272 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Penguin Classics

ISBN:9780241699584

Published:30 Jan 2025

Weight:750g

Dimensions:204 x 132 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

迈尔斯·富兰克林的首作讲述了活泼叛逆的 16 岁女孩西比拉·梅尔文（以富兰克林本人为原型）为摆脱丛林生活的束缚而奋斗的故事。西比拉在父母的偏远农场长大，她渴望读书、写作、唱歌并取得伟大的成就。然而，她对“辉煌事业”的渴望却一直受阻，首先是农村家庭生活的艰苦要求，后来是与富有的哈罗德·比彻姆的传统婚姻的束缚。西比拉只能用她聪明而矛盾的头脑来引导她，她被迫按照自己的方式定义生活。

《我的辉煌事业》因捕捉了 20 世纪初澳大利亚的精神而广受好评。书中热情而早熟的主人公的奋斗为这一时期新兴的妇女权利和选举权运动提供了一丝光亮，并令人难忘地唤起了青春的热情。

Miles Franklin’s debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn – closely modelled on Franklin herself – as she fights to break free of restrictive life. Growing up on her parents’ outback farm, Sybylla is desperate to read, write, sing and achieve great things. Yet her aspirations for a ‘brilliant career’ are persistently thwarted, first by the arduous demands of rural family life, and later by the shackles of a proposed conventional marriage to the wealthy Harold Beecham. With only her brilliant, conflicted mind to guide her, Sybylla is forced to define a life on her own terms.

My Brilliant Career is acclaimed for capturing the spirit of Australia at the turn of the twentieth century. The struggles of its fiery, precocious protagonist shine a light on the emergent women’s rights and suffrage movement during this period, and memorably evoke the intensity of youth.

作者简介

斯特拉·玛丽亚·莎拉·迈尔斯·富兰克林 (1879-1954) 出生于澳大利亚旧塔尔宾戈。尽管童年生活艰难而孤独——她在新南威尔士州贫困的丛林地区长大，受教育程度有限——但她在 19 岁时就完成了她的第1本书。具有讽刺意味的是，这本名为《我的辉煌事业》（1901 年）的书以男性笔名出版，立即获得了成功和赞誉。书中讲述了一位充满激情、雄心勃勃的女主人公对乡村丛林生活感到沮丧的故事，引起了澳大利亚年轻女性的共鸣，并使富兰克林成为文学界大胆的新女权主义声音。

在她的处女作出版后，富兰克林搬到了悉尼，然后去了美国和英国。她一生共写作和出版了 19 本书，并在全国妇女工会联盟等组织担任编辑和女性倡导者。她获得了一项重要文学奖项——迈尔斯·富兰克林奖，巩固了她在澳大利亚文学界的遗产。

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879-1954) was born in Old Talbingo, Australia. Despite a difficult and isolated young life – she grew up in the impoverished regions of New South Wales, with limited education – she completed her first book at the age of just nineteen. The ironically titled My Brilliant Career (1901) was published under a male pseudonym, to immediate success and acclaim. Its story of an impassioned, ambitious female protagonist frustrated by rural life resonated with young Australian women and established Franklin as a bold new feminist voice in literature.

Following the publication of her debut novel, Franklin moved to Sydney, then on to America and Britain. She wrote and published a total of nineteen books across her lifetime, as well as working as an editor and women’s advocate in organisations such as the National Women’s Trade Union League. Her endowment of a major literary award – the Miles Franklin Award – has consolidated her legacy in Australian literary life.