Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
George Borrow
Play
Length 21 h 48 min
Chapters 100
First published 1914
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)
Chapters
1
Preface Read by Peter Dann 8:52
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Chapter 2 Read by Peter Dann 14:42
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Chapter 3 Read by Peter Dann 21:46
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Chapter 4 Read by Peter Dann 16:16
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Chapter 5 Read by Peter Dann 20:57
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Chapter 6 Read by Peter Dann 17:03
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Chapter 7 Read by Peter Dann 17:53
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Chapter 8 Read by Peter Dann 10:45
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Chapter 9 Read by Peter Dann 14:16
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Chapter 10 Read by Peter Dann 9:10
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Chapter 11 Read by Peter Dann 11:43
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Chapter 12 Read by Peter Dann 17:28
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Chapter 13 Read by Peter Dann 14:14
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Chapter 14 Read by Peter Dann 19:48
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Chapter 15 Read by Peter Dann 13:39
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Chapter 16 Read by Peter Dann 11:49
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Chapter 17 Read by Peter Dann 15:19
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Chapter 18 Read by Peter Dann 9:07
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Chapter 19 Read by Peter Dann 16:43
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Chapter 20 Read by Peter Dann 8:30
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Chapter 21 Read by Peter Dann 12:52
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Chapter 22 Read by Peter Dann 16:42
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Chapter 23 Read by Peter Dann 18:42
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Chapter 24 Read by Peter Dann 14:25
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Chapter 25 Read by Peter Dann 17:09
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Chapter 26 Read by Peter Dann 16:58
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Chapter 27 Read by Peter Dann 16:44
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Chapter 28 Read by Peter Dann 5:04
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Chapter 29 Read by Peter Dann 8:39
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Chapter 30 Read by Peter Dann 14:14
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Chapter 31 Read by Peter Dann 13:53
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Chapter 32 Read by Peter Dann 12:06
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Chapter 33 Read by Peter Dann 10:29
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Chapter 34 Read by Peter Dann 5:15
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Chapter 35 Read by Peter Dann 10:33
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Chapter 36 Read by Peter Dann 13:15
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Chapter 37 Read by Peter Dann 9:32
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Chapter 38 Read by Peter Dann 8:28
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Chapter 39 Read by Peter Dann 13:49
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Chapter 40 Read by Peter Dann 8:18
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Chapter 41 Read by Peter Dann 8:44
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Chapter 42 Read by Peter Dann 12:04
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Chapter 43 Read by Peter Dann 4:12
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Chapter 44 Read by Peter Dann 12:23
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Chapter 45 Read by Peter Dann 10:37
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Chapter 46 Read by Peter Dann 8:32
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Chapter 47 Read by Peter Dann 12:12
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Chapter 48 Read by Peter Dann 8:44
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Chapter 49 Read by Peter Dann 7:32
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Chapter 50 Read by Peter Dann 8:01
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Chapter 51 Read by Peter Dann 10:15
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Chapter 52 Read by Peter Dann 10:11
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Chapter 53 Read by Peter Dann 15:31
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Chapter 54 Read by Peter Dann 8:37
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Chapter 55 Read by Peter Dann 7:38
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Chapter 56 Read by Peter Dann 5:52
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Chapter 57 Read by Peter Dann 7:39
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Chapter 58 Read by Peter Dann 6:55
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Chapter 59 Read by Peter Dann 7:17
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Chapter 60 Read by Peter Dann 8:32
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Chapter 61 Read by Peter Dann 3:12
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Chapter 62 Read by Peter Dann 10:52
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Chapter 63 Read by Peter Dann 10:55
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Chapter 64 Read by Peter Dann 21:57
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Chapter 65 Read by Peter Dann 9:50
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Chapter 66 Read by Peter Dann 13:30
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Chapter 67 Read by Peter Dann 19:11
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Chapter 68 Read by Peter Dann 24:28
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Chapter 69 Read by Peter Dann 16:12
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Chapter 70 Read by Peter Dann 14:38
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Chapter 71 Read by Peter Dann 24:20
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Chapter 72 Read by Peter Dann 11:47
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Chapter 73 Read by Peter Dann 17:07
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Chapter 74 Read by Peter Dann 9:48
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Chapter 75 Read by Peter Dann 14:58
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Chapter 76 Read by Peter Dann 22:53
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Chapter 77 Read by Peter Dann 8:39
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Chapter 78 Read by Peter Dann 5:48
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Chapter 79 Read by Peter Dann 14:22
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Chapter 80 Read by Peter Dann 4:23
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Chapter 81 Read by Peter Dann 19:27
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Chapter 82 Read by Peter Dann 6:28
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Chapter 83 Read by Peter Dann 9:46
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Chapter 84 Read by Peter Dann 13:40
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Chapter 85 Read by Peter Dann 24:50
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Chapter 86 Read by Peter Dann 9:35
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Chapter 87 Read by Peter Dann 3:52
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Chapter 88 Read by Peter Dann 19:09
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Chapter 89 Read by Peter Dann 11:06
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Chapter 90 Read by Peter Dann 15:01
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Chapter 91 Read by Peter Dann 4:24
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Chapter 92 Read by Peter Dann 12:13
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Chapter 93 Read by Peter Dann 5:30
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Chapter 94 Read by Peter Dann 29:11
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Chapter 95 Read by Peter Dann 16:12
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Chapter 96 Read by Peter Dann 11:48
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Chapter 97 Read by Peter Dann 17:26
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Chapter 98 Read by Peter Dann 28:37
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Chapter 99 Read by Peter Dann 24:55
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Chapter 100 Read by Peter Dann 8:42
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