More Sport For Our Neighbours

Mr Bennet, of Longbourn, records his journey across Europe to visit his daughter Lydia and her husband Wickham in their new home. He also reveals the vital part played by the Bennet family in events which were to redraw the map of the continent.

Mr Bennet of Longbourn relates how, after the marriage of his daughters Elizabeth and Jane, he is persuaded to visit them in Derbyshire and then to go on to Newcastle to visit Lydia and Wickham. While in the North he becomes embroiled in a famous incident of the Napoleonic Wars, and eventually returns home with a revised opinion of most of his children, and a new vision for the future.

From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.

Read all about the early life of Mr Darcy's sister Georgiana, her involvement with the opprobrious Mr Wickham and more, in this latest offering from the creator of Pride Unprejudiced and More Sport for Our Neighbours.