Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
George Borrow
Read 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 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)
Chapters
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 | 12:52 | Read by Peter Dann |
Chapter 22 | 16:42 | 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 | 5:04 | Read by Peter Dann |
Chapter 29 | 8:39 | Read by Peter Dann |
Chapter 30 | 14:14 | 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 |