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Lavengro, the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest , published in 1851, is a heavily fictionalized account of (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-borrow) George Borrow ’s early years. Borrow, born in 1803, was a writer and self-taught polyglot, fluent in many European languages, and a lover of literature. The Romany Rye , published six years later in 1857, is sometimes described as the “sequel” to Lavengro , but in fact it begins with a straight continuation of the action of the first book, which breaks off rather suddenly. The two books therefore are best considered as a whole and read together, and this Standard Ebooks edition combines the two into one volume. In the novel Borrow tells of his upbringing as the son of an army recruiting officer, moving with the regiment to different locations in Britain, including Scotland and Ireland. It is in Ireland that he first encounters a strange new language which he is keen to learn, leading to a life-long passion for acquiring new tongues. A couple of years later in England, he comes across a camp of gypsies and meets the gypsy Jasper Petulengro, who becomes a life-long friend. Borrow is delighted to discover that the Romany have their

Author

George Henry Borrow

Publisher

Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192813572

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History