Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, And What I Saw There [Reprint 2013 ed.] 9780674280151, 9780674280144


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Table of contents :
INTRODUCTION
NOTE ON THE TEXT
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE
CONTENTS
NIGHT THE FIRST
NIGHT THE SECOND
NIGHT THE THIRD.
NIGHT THE FOURTH
NIGHT THE FIFTH
NIGHT THE SIXTH
NIGHT THE SEVENTH
NIGHT THE EIGHTH
NIGHT THE NINTH
NIGHT THE TENTH
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THE

JOHN HARVARD LIBRARY Bernard Bailyn Editor-in-Chief

THE JOHN HARVARD

LIBRARY

T e n N i g h t s in a B a r - R o o m , A n d W h a t I Saw T h e r e By

T I M O T H Y SHAY

ARTHUR

Edited by Donald A. Koch

THE BELKNAP PRESS HARVARD

UNIVERSITY

Cambridge, Massachusetts 19 6 4

OF PRESS

Originally published in 1854

© Copyright 1964 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved

Distributed in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, London

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 64-25051 Printed in the United States of America

INTRODUCTION ι: The Life and Work of T. S. Arthur In his delightful study entitled Queer Books, Edmund Pearson devotes a full chapter to the peculiar nineteenth-century literary genre known as "temperance novels." With tongue in cheek Pearson comments on the moral nature and "extraordinary innocence" of these novels and then tells of his first encounter—through a play version—with the classic example, Timothy Shay Arthur's Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, And What I Sa