The Getting of Wisdom (Text Classics)
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ISBN: 1922079405 / Publisher: Text Classics, April 2013
The classic Australian novel of school days, a compelling and frank account of a young girl’s coming of age.
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Laura Rambotham, clever, precocious but naïve, leaves her home in the country for boarding school in turn-of-the-century Melbourne. She wants to fit in, but her artistic spirit chafes against the stuffy confines and minds of the ladies school. This is the quintessential girl's coming-of-age novel, by one of Australia's finest writers.
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