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They may still be copyrighted in other countries, so users located outside of the United States must check their local laws before using this ebook. The creators of, and contributors to, this ebook dedicate their contributions to the worldwide public domain via the terms in the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. For full license information, see the Uncopyright at the end of this ebook.  \nStandard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces ebook editions of public domain literature using modern typography, technology, and editorial standards, and distributes them free of cost. You can download this and other ebooks carefully produced for true book lovers at [standardebooks.org](standardebooks.org).  \nPreface  \nA few months before I left Australia I got a letter from the bush signed“Miles Franklin,” saying that the writer had written a novel, but knew nothing of editors and publishers, and asking me to read and advise. Something about the letter, which was written in a strong original hand, attracted me, so I sent for the MS., and one dull afternoon I started to read it. I hadn’t read three pages when I saw what you will no doubt see at once—that the story had been written by a girl. And as I went on I saw that the work was Australian—born of the bush. I don’t know about the girlishly emotional parts of the book—I leave that to girl readers to judge; but the descriptions of bush life and scenery came startlingly, painfully real to me, and I know that, as far as they are concerned, the book is true to Australia—the truest I ever read. I wrote to Miles Franklin, and she confessed that she was a girl. I saw her before leaving Sydney. She is just a little bush girl, barely twenty-one yet, and has scarcely ever been out of the bush in her life. She has lived her book, and I feel proud of it for the sake of the country I came from, where people toil and bake and suffer and are kind; where every second sunburnt bushman is a sympathetic humorist, with the sadness of the bush deep in his eyes and a brave grin for the worst of times, and where every third bushman is a poet, with a big heart that keeps his pockets empty.  \nHenry Lawson England, April 1901  \nIntroduction  \nPossum Gully, near Goulburn, NSW, Australia, 1st March, 1899 My Dear Fellow Australians,  \nJust a few lines to tell you that this story is all about myself—for no other purpose do I write it.  \nI make no apologies for being egotistical. In this particular I attempt an improvement on other autobiographies. Other autobiographies weary one with excuses for their egotism. What matters it to you if I am egotistical? 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As my life creeps on forever through the long toil-laden days with its agonizing monotony, narrowness, and absolute","cbCaipcSfy2eXMH2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipcSfy2eXMH2","pdf",1572374,239,"English","# Preface\n# Introduction\n# Special Notice\n# My Brilliant Career\n## I - I Remember, I Remember","[{\"question\":\"What does the preface say about the book’s author and perspective?\",\"answer\":\"It describes the writer as a young bush girl and stresses that the descriptions of bush life and scenery feel painfully real to Australia.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the introduction define the work’s genre?\",\"answer\":\"It insists the story is not a romance and not a novel, but “simply a yarn”—a real account shaped by hardship.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the setting referenced at the start of the introduction?\",\"answer\":\"It places the narrator at Possum Gully near Goulburn in New South Wales, dated 1 March 1899.\"}]","My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin - Preface and Introduction | PDF",368]