The complete online text of Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow.

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 Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula (1843...

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 a year, while 30,000 pirated copies were sold within...

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 single-volume edition (the first title in Murray's Coloni...

Archpriest Dmitry Grigorieff, 89, dean emeritus of St. Nicholas Cathedral in the District and a retired professor of Russian language and literature at Georgetown University, died Dec. 8 of cardiac arrest at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He lived in Bethesda. His father, Dmitry Dmitrievich...

MEDFIELD - The Rev. George Nelson Thompson, 84, of Medfield, retired Episcopal priest and Lutheran and Congregational minister, died Sept. 22 in Boston. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Rev. Thompson attended P.S. 37 in Springfield Gardens, N.Y., and graduated from Jamaica High School...