The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro'

The Romany Rye, by George Borrow
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Transcribed from by the 1903 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.
THE ROMANY RYE
A Sequel to ‘Lavengro’
By
GEORGE BORROW
WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION
BY JOHN SAMPSON
WITH A FRONTISPIECE
LONDON METHUEN & CO. 36, ESSEX STREET, W.C. MDCCCCIII
INTRODUCTION
‘Lavengro’ and ‘The Romany Rye’ are one book, though the former was published in 1851 and the latter not until 1857. After a slumber of six years the dingle re-awakes to life, Lavengro’s hammer shatters the stillness, and the blaze of his forge again lights up its shadows, while all the strange persons of the drama take up their parts at the point where the curtain had been so abruptly rung down. The post-chaise overturned in the ...