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Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

by Borrow, George, 1803-1881

BookID: 23287

Language:English

Editor:Knapp, William I. (William Ireland), 1835-1908

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 72.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

England -- FictionRomanies -- Fiction

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"Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest" by George Borrow is a work published in 1851 that blends memoir and novel. The protagonist George, son of a militia officer, grows up in barrack towns across Britain and Ireland. His journey takes him from lawyer's apprentice to London hack writer to wandering tinker, encountering Romany travelers along the way. This classic of 19th-century English literature offers vivid portraits of outcasts and adventurers on the margins of Victorian society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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