Borrow, George, 1803-1881

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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavengro Release date is 1996-03-01

Transcribed from the 1900 Macmillian and Co. Edition by David Price Transcribed from the 1900 Macmillian and Co. Edition by David Price

"Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest" by George Borrow is a work published in 1851 that blends memoir and novel. Following a protagonist named George from military barracks to London's underworld to life as a wandering tinker, the book offers vivid portraits of Romany travelers and English society's margins. Initially puzzling critics with its mixture of fact and fiction, this unconventional narrative later became a celebrated classic of nineteenth-century English literature, praised for its portrayal of eccentric characters and adventurous spirit. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



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