Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

LibriVox recording of Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow. Read in English by Peter Dann This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible salesman George Borrow combines elements of autobiography, fantasy and anti-Catholic polemic. We follow Borrow around the countryside of England, Scotland and Ireland — and, for a period, through the streets of London — as he grows from a young boy to a young man in the first decades of the nineteenth century, attracted to studying various languages, hoping but failing to make his mark a