Lavengro
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Merchant's Category: Media> Books
Falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, Lavengro has long been considered a classic of 19th-century English literature. According to the author lav-engro is a Romany word meaning "word master". The historian G.M. Trevelyan called this "a book that breathes the spirit of that period of strong and eccentric characters". 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 Faded navy faux leather cover, with overhang at edges. Front has a gilt, debossed illustration of a ship and the the title is gilt. There is wear and tear to the edges of the cover, and damage to the spine. Marbled green endpapers. The pages are wellbound and clean, and the book is illustrated throughout in black and white.
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