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The Lights and Shadows of Real Life

by T. S. Arthur

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A large collection of Arthur’s moral stories of American homes, mills and shops, from “The Factory Girl” and “Two Pictures” to temperance pieces like “Brandy as a Preventive” and “The Temperance Pledge,” in which wives tremble at the first sign of drink. The volume opens with a short autobiography of the author.

A generous sampler of nineteenth-century reform fiction from the author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Download the free EPUB.

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