https://www.vigobooks.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 06 Apr 2014 16:01:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/popular-classic/chapters-from-my-autobiography-2/ https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/popular-classic/chapters-from-my-autobiography-2/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:11:15 +0000 http://www.vigobooks.com/?p=3494 Presented as a collection of reminiscences rather than a traditional autobiography, this book offers a vibrant and enjoyable way to learn more about Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the man behind the pen name.

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]]> https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/essential-classics/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-2/feed/ 0 https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/essential-classics/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-2/ https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/essential-classics/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-2/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:00:21 +0000 http://www.vigobooks.com/?p=2110 Fed up with his abusive father and his bossy adoptive parents, Huckleberry Finn teams up with the fugitive slave Jim in a search for freedom along the Mississippi River. But as they journey through the American frontier, Huck finds himself wrestling with rejecting all he has been taught about slaves in order to protect Jim from those seeking to capture him.

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]]> https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/non-fiction/chapters-from-my-autobiography/feed/ 0 https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/american-literature/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court/ https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/american-literature/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court/#comments Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:06:19 +0000 http://www.vigobooks.com/?p=1334 Twain’s knack for humour takes centre stage in this tale of a 19th century Connecticut man who travels back to the time of Camelot with comic results.

]]> https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/american-literature/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court/feed/ 0 https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/american-literature/the-innocents-abroad/ https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/american-literature/the-innocents-abroad/#comments Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:48:31 +0000 http://www.vigobooks.com/?p=1012 In this travel book, Mark Twain serves up a humorous recount of his 1867 journey to the Middle East aboard the Quaker City.

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]]> https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/american-literature/roughing-it/feed/ 0 https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/american-literature/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/ https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/american-literature/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:34:56 +0000 http://www.vigobooks.com/?p=583 Follow the boyhood exploits of the mischievous Tom Sawyer as he grows up in pre-Civil War Missouri. Tom’s adventures eventually led to him and his best friend Huckleberry Finn witnessing a murder, but will they dare risk revealing the identity of the killer?

]]> https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/american-literature/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/feed/ 0 https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/american-literature/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/ https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/american-literature/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:17:48 +0000 http://www.vigobooks.com/?p=572 Fed up with his abusive father and his bossy adoptive parents, Huckleberry Finn teams up with the fugitive slave Jim in a search for freedom along the Mississippi River. But as they journey through the American frontier, Huck finds himself wrestling with rejecting all he has been taught about slaves in order to protect Jim from those seeking to capture him.

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