Word: bronte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INFERNAL WORLD OF BRANWELL BRONTË(336 pp.)-Daphne Du Maurier -Doubleday...
Everyone knows of the Brontë sisters; fewer people recall that they had a brother. Yet before his 21st year, Branwell Brontë scribbled more manuscripts-plays, novels, poems-in his crimped microscopic hand than the entire published output of Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Not a line of his saw print...
...writer," which is a little like referring ecstatically to the tallest building in Newark, N.J. In the period in which Gottfried Keller was busy being the greatest Swiss novelist (Der Grüne Heinrich was published in 1854), Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, Melville wrote Moby Dick, and Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights. Still, Keller's book, in its first English translation, has enough literary and historical value to make it worth reading. The novel lacks, and needs, a scholarly introduction, but that is asking a great deal; Grove Press deserves credit for publishing the work...