Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest


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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 as a writer and translator, and then later adopting the life of an itinerant tinker, all the while struggling with intermittent bouts of existential despair and terror. The two figures Borrow denotes as "scholar" and "priest" in his title figure only slightly in the tale, while even Mr Petulengro, a gypsy Borrow befriends, appears only intermittently. According to Borrow, the term "Lavengro" signifies "word master" in the language of the gypsies. Noted Australian author (and, incidentally, self-taught student of Hungarian) Gerald Murnane has described Borrow as his favourite prose stylist. (Summary by Peter Dann) (21 hr 48 min)

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Preface 8:52 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 1 19:11 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 2 14:42 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 3 21:46 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 4 16:16 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 5 20:57 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 6 17:03 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 7 17:53 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 8 10:45 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 9 14:16 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 10 9:10 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 11 11:43 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 12 17:28 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 13 14:14 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 14 19:48 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 15 13:39 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 16 11:49 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 17 15:19 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 18 9:07 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 19 16:43 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 20 8:30 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 21 12:51 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 22 16:41 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 23 18:42 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 24 14:25 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 25 17:09 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 26 16:58 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 27 16:44 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 28 5:03 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 29 8:38 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 30 14:13 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 31 13:53 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 32 12:06 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 33 10:29 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 34 5:15 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 35 10:33 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 36 13:15 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 37 9:32 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 38 8:28 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 39 13:49 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 40 8:18 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 41 8:44 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 42 12:04 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 43 4:12 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 44 12:23 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 45 10:37 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 46 8:32 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 47 12:12 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 48 8:44 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 49 7:32 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 50 8:01 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 51 10:15 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 52 10:11 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 53 15:31 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 54 8:37 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 55 7:38 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 56 5:52 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 57 7:39 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 58 6:55 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 59 7:17 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 60 8:32 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 61 3:12 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 62 10:52 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 63 10:55 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 64 21:57 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 65 9:50 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 66 13:30 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 67 19:11 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 68 24:28 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 69 16:12 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 70 14:38 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 71 24:20 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 72 11:47 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 73 17:07 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 74 9:48 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 75 14:58 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 76 22:53 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 77 8:39 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 78 5:48 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 79 14:22 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 80 4:23 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 81 19:27 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 82 6:28 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 83 9:46 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 84 13:40 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 85 24:50 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 86 9:35 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 87 3:52 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 88 19:09 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 89 11:06 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 90 15:01 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 91 4:24 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 92 12:13 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 93 5:30 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 94 29:11 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 95 16:12 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 96 11:48 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 97 17:26 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 98 28:37 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 99 24:55 Read by Peter Dann
Chapter 100 8:42 Read by Peter Dann