Bøger af George Borrow

Over 150 Ballads from George Borrow are contained within this book. It is compiled from 38 limited edition booklets of ballads that were produced at the beginning of the 20th Century. George Borrow was a lover of travel and was fluent in several languages including Romany. He was particularly taken with the poetry of the Northern Races and many of his ballads are translated from the Danish.These pamphlets contained his later poetic works and they considered to be much superior to his earlier book ¿Romantic Ballads¿ which was crude in terms of the rhythm and rhyme.The Pamphlets contained in this volume are:The Talisman From The Russian Of Alexander Pushkin With Other Pieces; Alf The Freebooter Little Danneved And Swayne Trost And Other Ballads; Brown William The Power Of The Harp And Other Ballads; The Brother Avenged And Other Ballads; Ermeline A Ballad; Grimmer And Kamper The End Of Sivard Snarenswayne And Other Ballads; The Expedition To Birting¿s Land And Other Ballads; King Diderik And The Fight Between The Lion And Dragon And Other Ballads; King Hacon¿s Death And Bran And The Black Dog; Little Engel A Ballad With A Series Of Epigrams From The Persian; Marsk Stig A Ballad; Marsk Stig¿s Daughters And Other Songs And Ballads; Niels Ebbesen And Germand Gladenswayne; The Nightingale The Valkyrie And Raven And Other Ballads; Proud Signild And Other Ballads; Ulf Van Yern And Other Ballads; Axel Thordson And Fair Valborg A Ballad; The Return Of The Dead And Other Ballads; Mollie Charane And Other Ballads; The King¿s Wake And Other Ballads; Hafbur And Signe A Ballad; Queen Berngerd The Bard And The Dreams And Other Ballads; Child Maidelvold And Other Ballads; Ellen Of Villenskov And Other Ballads; Finnish Arts Or Sir Thor And Damsel Thure A Ballad; Signelil A Tale From The Cornish And Other Ballads; The Dalby Bear And Other Ballads; The Giant Of Bern And Orm Ungerswayne A Ballad; The Mermaid¿s Prophecy And Other Songs Relating To Queen Dagmar; The Verner Raven The Count Of Vendel¿s Daughter And Other Ballads; The Song Of Deirdra King Byrge And His Brothers And Other Ballads; The Songs Of Ranild; The Tale Of Brynild And King Valdemar And His Sister Two Ballads; Tord Of Hafsborough And Other Ballads; Young Swaigder Or The Force Of Runes And Other Ballads; Grimhild¿s Vengeance Three Ballads; The Fountain Of Maribo And Other Ballads; The Serpent Knight And Other Ballads

Lavengro (Complete): The Scholar-The Gypsy-The Priest With Notes And An Introduction By F. Hindes Groome (Complete Edition In Two Volumes)This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain is a book written by George Borrow, the first edition was published 1841. A comprehensive treatise on the different gypsy societies of the world, based on the author's twenty years experience with gypsies in a variety of countries. This fascinating and informative text offers the reader a unique and interesting insight into a vast range of gypsy customs and traditions. In his work George Borrow writes about the living and culture of the Romani people predominantly in Spain. At the end of the book a useful dictionary of the Romani language can be found. The Zincali contains a lot of anecdotes of Borrow's encounters with the people, which shows that he spoke the Romani language fluently and was even considered as one of them. In contrast to most modern works about the Romani people also the dark side of the Romani culture is discussed, like fraud and robbery, which were apparently common with the Romani people in the author's lifetime. The chapters of this book include: 'The Gypsies - An Introduction'; 'The Zigani, or Russian Gypsies'; 'The Hungarian Gypsies, or Czigany'; 'Wallachia and Moldavia'; 'The English Gypsies'; 'Some Further Particulars respecting the English Gypsies', etc. Many antiquarian texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.