TY - BOOK AU - Borrow,George AU - Sampson,John TI - The Romany Rye: A Sequel to 'Lavengro' AV - PR PY - 2008/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - England -- Fiction KW - Adventure stories KW - Romanies -- Fiction N1 - Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #21206 (Plain HTML file) #25071 (Plain HTML file) #422 (Plain HTML file) #54048 (Illustrated HTML file); Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Romany_Rye; Release date is 2008-04-14; Transcribed from by the 1903 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Romany Rye" by George Borrow is a novel written in 1857 as a sequel to "Lavengro." This partly autobiographical philosophical adventure follows a learned young man living among the Romanies. The story features encounters with eccentric characters and ethnographic observations of Romani customs. The protagonist acquires a valuable horse from his Romani friend Jasper Petulengro, sells it at the Horncastle horse fair, and discovers linguistic connections between the Romani and Northern Indian languages that inspire dreams of distant travels. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25071 ER -