The Altar Fire

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Orpen, Thomas Cole and J. M. W. Turner. The journal of a successful novelist who has lost the power to write, kept as the years pass and the fire on the altar refuses to relight. Benson wrote the words to Land of Hope and Glory, was Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and kept a diary of four million words — the longest in English. T...