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Herbert George Jenkins. The Life of George Borrow
The Life of George Borrow
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I: 1678–MAY 1816
CHAPTER II: MAY 1816–MARCH 1824
CHAPTER III. APRIL 1824–MAY 1825
CHAPTER IV. MAY–SEPTEMBER 1825
CHAPTER V. SEPTEMBER 1825–DECEMBER 1832
CHAPTER VI. JANUARY–JULY 1833
CHAPTER VII. AUGUST 1833–JANUARY 1834
CHAPTER VIII. FEBRUARY–OCTOBER 1834
CHAPTER IX. NOVEMBER 1834–SEPTEMBER 1835
CHAPTER X. OCTOBER 1835–JANUARY 1836
CHAPTER XI. JANUARY–OCTOBER 1836
CHAPTER XII. NOVEMBER 1836–MAY 1837
CHAPTER XIII. MAY–OCTOBER 1837
CHAPTER XIV. NOVEMBER 1837–APRIL 1838
CHAPTER XV. MAY 1–13, 1838
CHAPTER XVI. MAY–JULY 1838
CHAPTER XVII. JULY–NOVEMBER 1838
CHAPTER XVIII. DECEMBER 1838–MAY 1839
CHAPTER XIX. MAY–DECEMBER 1839
CHAPTER XX. DECEMBER 1839–MAY 1840
CHAPTER XXI. MAY 1840–MARCH 1841
CHAPTER XXII. APRIL 1841–MARCH 1844
CHAPTER XXIII. MARCH 1844–1848
CHAPTER XXIV. LAVENGRO—1843–1851
CHAPTER XXV. SEPTEMBER 1849–FEBRUARY 1854
CHAPTER XXVI. MARCH 1854–MAY 1856
CHAPTER XXVII. THE ROMANY RYE. 1854–1859
CHAPTER XXVIII. JULY 1859–JANUARY 1869
CHAPTER XXIX. JANUARY 1869–1881
LIST OF BORROW’S WORKS
1825
1826
1835
1841
1842
1862
1884
1892
Footnote
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Herbert George Jenkins
Published by Good Press, 2021
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From the first Borrow had shown a strong distaste for the humdrum routine of school life. In a thousand ways he was different from his fellows. He had been accustomed to meet strange and, to him, deeply interesting people. Now he was bidden adopt a course of life against which his whole nature rebelled. It was impossible. He missed the atmosphere of vagabondage that had inspired and stimulated his early boyhood.
The crisis came at last. There was only one way to avoid the awkward and distasteful destiny that was being forced upon him. He entered into a conspiracy with three school-fellows, all younger than himself, to make a dash for a life that should offer wider opportunities to their adventurous natures. The plan was to tramp to Great Yarmouth and there excavate on the seashore caves for their habitation. From these headquarters they would make foraging expeditions, and live on what they could extract from the surrounding country, either by force or by the terror that they inspired. One morning the four started on their twenty-mile trudge to the sea; but, when only a few miles out, one of their number became fearful and turned back.
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