Lavengro : The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

from setnahkt

Picked up for free on the e-reader. The two books are sequential; The Romany Rye picks up right where Lavengro left off. They are semiautobiographical; the narrator is never named but is clearly the author, George Borrow. He narrates various adventures around England; as a hack author, a tinker, ...

from mojacobs

Memoir? Fiction? Nobody seems sure. I loved Wild Wales by Borrow, and I'm interested in the person Borrow, but this was very heavy going indeed. Very longwinded.

from mojacobs

Memoir? Fiction? Nobody seems sure. I loved Wild Wales by Borrow, and I'm interested in the person Borrow, but this was very heavy going indeed. Very longwinded.

from Esta1923

Borrow had a passion for gypsy life. History tells us he was not the most reliable narrator but it still is interesting to read this and his other books.