Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest, credited to George Borrow, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow. Read in English 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
• Author credits: George Borrow
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 101
• Listed recording duration: 21:48:28

Catalogue topics

• england -- fiction
• romanies -- fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 101

1. 000 - Preface — 8:52
2. 001 - Chapter 1 — 19:11
3. 002 - Chapter 2 — 14:42
4. 003 - Chapter 3 — 21:46
5. 004 - Chapter 4 — 16:16
6. 005 - Chapter 5 — 20:57
7. 006 - Chapter 6 — 17:03
8. 007 - Chapter 7 — 17:53
9. 008 - Chapter 8 — 10:45
10. 009 - Chapter 9 — 14:16
11. 010 - Chapter 10 — 9:10
12. 011 - Chapter 11 — 11:43
13. 012 - Chapter 12 — 17:28
14. 013 - Chapter 13 — 14:14
15. 014 - Chapter 14 — 19:48
16. 015 - Chapter 15 — 13:39
17. 016 - Chapter 16 — 11:49
18. 017 - Chapter 17 — 15:19
19. 018 - Chapter 18 — 9:07
20. 019 - Chapter 19 — 16:43
21. 020 - Chapter 20 — 8:30
22. 021 - Chapter 21 — 12:52
23. 022 - Chapter 22 — 16:42
24. 023 - Chapter 23 — 18:42

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