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Lavengro

by George Borrow

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1851
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Part memoir, part invention, and impossible to file under either, this book follows a restless young Englishman with a gift for languages as he drifts through the byways of early nineteenth-century Britain. He falls in with tinkers, prizefighters, and Romani travellers, above all his friend Jasper Petulengro, and the title itself is the Romani word for word-master. Borrow strings together roadside encounters, philological curiosity, and long stretches of open-air talk into something closer to a wandering life than a plotted story. Famous set pieces include the fight on the heath and the strange interlude in the dingle with Isopel Berners. Its unclassifiable freedom has kept readers arguing and delighting for generations.

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George Borrow was an English writer, translator, linguist, and traveler whose books draw on encounters across Britain and continental Europe. John Murray issued Lavengro in 1851; it blends autobiography and fiction as its wandering narrator moves through barrack towns, London literary work, and meetings with Romani communities.

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First published
1851
Reading time
About 28 hours
Pages
1,013
Language
English
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