Book
Lavengro, The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
- Published
- 1851
- Genre
- Fiction
- Publisher
- Arkose Press
- Pages
- 390
- Words
- 237377
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11159826-lavengro-the-scholar-the-gypsy-the-priest?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_44
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 15–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 10 onwards · ages 15–18
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Its protagonist, whose name is never mentioned, is born the son of an officer in a militia regiment and is brought up in various barrack towns in England, Scotland and Ireland. After serving an apprenticeship to a lawyer he moves to London and becomes a Grub Street hack, an occupation which gives him ample opportunities to observe London low-life. Finally he takes to the road as a tinker. At various points through the book he associates with Romany travellers, of whom he gives memorable and generally sympathetic pen-portraits. Lavengro was followed by a sequel, The Romany Rye. Neither of the two books are self-contained. Rather, Lavengro ends abruptly with chapter 100, and carries on directly in the The Romney Rye. Thus both need to be read together, in order.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781345684971
- ISBN-10
- 1345684975
Tags
EnglandMemoirNovel