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272 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1963
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Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.
I see and approve of the better, but I follow the worse
In the preface to her biography, du Maurier says the trouble with Branwell is that he couldn’t distinguish reality from fantasy. That’s why she calls the biography the ‘infernal world’ of Branwell Brontë, (1960) borrowing a phrase from Charlotte���he was completely taken over by this imaginative life and it ruined him.
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It is this story about the relationship between imagination and fantasy. He doesn’t always make the best of the opportunities he’s given and he allows himself to be taken over by his imaginative world. [...] He mythologises his own failure.