GEORGE BORROW
SELECTED PASSAGES
It is very possible that the reader during his country
walks or rides has observed, on coming to four cross-roads,
two or three handfuls of grass lying at a small dista...
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George Borrow achieved instant literary fame when John Murray published his The Bible in Spain (1843). The four editions of this three-volume work in the year of publication, followed in 1846 by a sin...
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George Borrow rose to international fame by writing about himself. His three-volume travelogue, The Bible in Spain, was probably the best-selling book of 1843. John Murray sold nearly 20,000 copies in...
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Alongside works by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, and Laurence Sterne, four of George Borrow's books--The Bible in Spain; or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Atte...
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The Pocket George Borrow
George (Henry) Borrow