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Ten Nights In A Bar-Room, And What I Saw There

Ten Nights In A Bar-Room, And What I Saw There

S. Arthur, T.

Paperback

Civil War Period (1850-1877)General World History

ISBN10: 9354505937
ISBN13: 9789354505935
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step into a crowded bar-room where small choices sharpen into catastrophe. Watch one drink become destiny. In Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There, T. S. Arthur turns the everyday scenes of antebellum American life into a stark, compassionate alcohol addiction cautionary tale, charting how public vice seeps into private sorrow. This temperance novel classic moves with the speed of a newspaper report and the bite of nineteenth century moral fiction, making its warnings feel immediate rather than museum-bound. First published amid the temperance movement social reform debates, Arthur's bestseller sits at the heart of American didactic literature and helped shape later Victorian social reform novels. As 1850s United States fiction, it captures the era's anxieties about respectability, labour, and the fragile bonds of home, offering a clear-eyed view of family ruin from alcohol without melodrama. Arthur writes with plain-spoken force, letting observation do the persuading. The bar-room becomes a civic crossroads, and each night tightens the moral pressure. Read today, it speaks to addiction, community responsibility, and the costs of looking away in any era. Casual readers will find a gripping social problem narrative; collectors will value it as one of the foundational social problem novel classics, rewarding rereading alongside an annotated scholarly edition or enjoyed simply as an unabridged classic edition. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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