TEN NIGHTS IN A BARROOM, AND WHAT I SAW THERE

PHILADELPHIA: Porter & Coates, 1882 NICE LOOKING MUSTARD COLOR COVER, GOLD AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS # WRITTEN INSIDE FRONT IN PENCIL. TIGHT AND CLEAN, ONE PICTURE LOOSE. TEN CHAPTERS. NICE ARTWORK. 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 owner, 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 wife Ann, 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. Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885) — known as T. S. Arthur — was a popular 19th-century American writer. He is famously known 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. His stories, written with compassion and sensitivity, articulated and spread values and ideas that were associated with "respectable middle class" life in America. He also believed greatly in the transformative and restorative power of love as is shown in one of his stories, "An Angel in Disguise". Ten Nights in a Bar-room and What I Saw There is an 1854 novel written by American author Timothy Shay Arthur. The book is a temperance novel, written expressly to discourage readers from drinking alcohol. It was a commercial and popular success upon its release and was later adapted into other media. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.