Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Borrow’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All the travel books, with individual contents tables
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare translations
* Includes Borrow’s letters – spend hours exploring the author’s correspondence
* Features four biographies, including Shorter’s seminal study – discover Borrow’s intriguing life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Travel Books
The Zincali (1841)
The Bible in Spain (1843)
Lavengro (1851)
The Romany Rye (1857)
Wild Wales (1862)
A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain (1913)
The Translations
Faustus by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1825)
Romantic Ballads (1826)
Targum (1835)
The Talisman (1835)
The Gypsy Luke (1837)
The Sleeping Bard by Ellis Wynne (1860)
The Turkish Jester by Nasreddin Hoca (1884)
The Death of Balder by Johannes Ewald (1889)
Miscellaneous Ballads
Non-Fiction
The Welsh and Their Literature (1861)
Romano Lavo-lil (1874)
The Letters
The Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society (1911)
Letters to his Mother, Ann Borrow and Other Correspondents (1913)
Letters to His Wife Mary Borrow (1913)
The Biographies
George Borrow (1900) by Alfred Egmont Hake
George Borrow, the Man and His Work (1908) by R. A. J. Walling
George Borrow (1911) by Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton
George Borrow and His Circle (1913) by Clement King Shorter
