Watersprings

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Thomas Cole, John Constable and J. M. W. Turner. A Cambridge don of fifty, comfortable and dry, takes a country living and discovers, too late to be dignified about it, that he has fallen in love with a girl of twenty-two. Benson wrote the words to Land of Hope and Glory, was Master of Magdalene College, and kept a diary of four million words — ...