Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavengro Release date is 2009-12-28
Transcribed from the 1914 T. N. Foulis edition by David Price Transcribed from the 1914 T. N. Foulis 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 his childhood in military barrack towns through various occupations—lawyer's apprentice, London hack writer, and traveling tinker—the book offers vivid portraits of Romany travelers and English low-life. Neither entirely autobiography nor pure fiction, this classic of 19th-century literature captures an era of strong, eccentric characters through episodes that interweave genuine experience with imaginative storytelling. (This is an automatically generated summary.)