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  • Ten Nights in a Bar Room

    T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

    eBook (, May 12, 2012)
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  • Ten nights in a bar-room, and what I saw there

    Timothy Shay Arthur, J. W. Bradley

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    Ten nights in a bar-room, and what I saw there. 260 Pages.
  • Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There

    T. S. Arthur, Jon S. Miller

    Paperback (Copley Publishing Group, Jan. 1, 2002)
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  • Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw: And What I Saw There

    T. Arthur

    Paperback (Applewood Books, Nov. 1, 2000)
    Originally published in 1854, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room was the most important American temperance novel, rivaling Uncle Tom's Cabin for popularity. It satisfied the appetite for the sensational and the lurid, yet at the same time was endorsed by all the clergy.
  • Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There

    Timothy Shay Arthur

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 4, 2012)
    β€˜Ten Nights in a Bar Room,’ considered by many to be one of the best temperance novels of the 19th century, tells the story of a mill owner who sells his mill to build a tavern in town, A morality tale, it portrays the evil of alcohol as told by a visitor to the town who stays at the tavern for ten days over a period of ten years. As the book so vividly portrays, customers and owner are all too weak to resist the temptations of demon rum. Written by Timothy Shay Arthur, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into the pro-temperance literature of the 19th century.
  • Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There

    T. S. Arthur

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Dec. 4, 2016)
    Ten Nights in a Bar-room and What I Saw There is an 1854 novel written by American author Timothy Shay Arthur.The novel is presented by an unnamed narrator who makes an annual visit to the fictional town of Cedarville. On his first visit, he stops at the new tavern, the Sickle and Sheaf. The proprietor, Simon Slade, is a former miller who gave up the trade for the more lucrative tavern. The business is a family affair, with Slade's unnamed wife, son Frank, and daughter Flora assisting him. The narrator also observes the town drunk, Joe Morgan. The father of a loving wife and family, he meets his moral downfall when introduced to alcohol. Morgan quickly becomes an alcoholic and spends most of his time at a bar. One day, his daughter begs him to return to his family. He initially ignores her desires until she is hit in the head by a flying glass as she goes to retrieve her father. Slade had initially thrown the tumbler at Morgan so, to a degree, her death is on his hands. On her deathbed, the daughter begs Morgan to abandon alcohol, to which he agrees. The novel progresses through the ruinous fall of more characters all at the hands of hard drink and other vices (gambling becomes another major reform notion in the text). Shay spends some time discussing corruption in politics with the corrupt "rum party" candidate from Cedarville, Judge Lyman. The narrator continually notes how even the drinkers in the story call for "the Maine Law" which will prohibit alcohol from being so temptingly available. The novel closes with the death of Simon Slade, already mutilated from an earlier riotous sequence of murders and mob mentality, at the hands of his son. The two had gotten into a drunken argument and Frank strikes his father in the head with a bottle. In the final scene the narrator sees the post with the once pristine and now gross and rotten Sickle and Sheaf totem chopped down after the town's moral fiber finally showed itself in a series of resolutions that led to the destruction of all the alcohol on the premises.............. Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885) β€” known as T.S. Arthur β€” was a popular 19th-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular American monthly magazine in the antebellum era, and he published and edited his own Arthur's Home Magazine, a periodical in the Godey's model, for many years. Virtually forgotten now, Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable, decorous middle-class life in antebellum America...........
  • Ten Nights in a Bar-Room: And What I Saw There

    T. S. Arthur

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, April 26, 2017)
    Excerpt from Ten Nights in a Bar-Room: And What I Saw ThereTen Nights in a bar~roozr3 gives a series of sharply drawn sketches of scenes, some of them touching in the extreme, and some dark and terrible. Step by step the author traces the downward course of the tempting vender and his infatuated victims, until both are involved in hopeless ruin. The book is marred by no exaggera tions, but exhibits the actualities of bar-room life, am the consequences flowing therefrom, with a severe sim plicity, and adherence to truth, that gives to every picture a Daguerrean vividness.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • Ten Nights In A Bar-room: And What I Saw There

    Timothy Shay Arthur

    Hardcover (Sagwan Press, Aug. 22, 2015)
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  • Ten Nights in a Bar Room and What I Saw There

    T. S. Arthur

    Hardcover (David C. Cook Publishing, March 15, 1900)
    Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There by T. S. Arthur. Undated vintage or antique hardcover published by David C. Cook Publishing Company. Black-and-white illustrations. This temperance novel helped to demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public.
  • Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There

    Arthur T.S.

    Hardcover (Henry T. Coates, March 15, 1882)
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  • Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There

    Timothy Shay Arthur

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Jan. 3, 2017)
    Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There is a pro temperance account written in the late 19th century.
  • Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There

    T. S. Arthur

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Dec. 4, 2016)
    Ten Nights in a Bar-room and What I Saw There is an 1854 novel written by American author Timothy Shay Arthur.The novel is presented by an unnamed narrator who makes an annual visit to the fictional town of Cedarville. On his first visit, he stops at the new tavern, the Sickle and Sheaf. The proprietor, Simon Slade, is a former miller who gave up the trade for the more lucrative tavern. The business is a family affair, with Slade's unnamed wife, son Frank, and daughter Flora assisting him. The narrator also observes the town drunk, Joe Morgan. The father of a loving wife and family, he meets his moral downfall when introduced to alcohol. Morgan quickly becomes an alcoholic and spends most of his time at a bar. One day, his daughter begs him to return to his family. He initially ignores her desires until she is hit in the head by a flying glass as she goes to retrieve her father. Slade had initially thrown the tumbler at Morgan so, to a degree, her death is on his hands. On her deathbed, the daughter begs Morgan to abandon alcohol, to which he agrees. The novel progresses through the ruinous fall of more characters all at the hands of hard drink and other vices (gambling becomes another major reform notion in the text). Shay spends some time discussing corruption in politics with the corrupt "rum party" candidate from Cedarville, Judge Lyman. The narrator continually notes how even the drinkers in the story call for "the Maine Law" which will prohibit alcohol from being so temptingly available. The novel closes with the death of Simon Slade, already mutilated from an earlier riotous sequence of murders and mob mentality, at the hands of his son. The two had gotten into a drunken argument and Frank strikes his father in the head with a bottle. In the final scene the narrator sees the post with the once pristine and now gross and rotten Sickle and Sheaf totem chopped down after the town's moral fiber finally showed itself in a series of resolutions that led to the destruction of all the alcohol on the premises.............. Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885) β€” known as T.S. Arthur β€” was a popular 19th-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular American monthly magazine in the antebellum era, and he published and edited his own Arthur's Home Magazine, a periodical in the Godey's model, for many years. Virtually forgotten now, Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable, decorous middle-class life in antebellum America...........