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Ten Nights in a Bar-Room: And What I Saw There

T. S. Arthur

Ten Nights in a Bar-Room: And What I Saw There

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.
ISBN
1331322650 / 9781331322658
Pages
308
Weight
14.7 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.6 in.

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