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  • Bibliography:
    65 Books
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    January 2006
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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  • After a Shadow

    "ARTY! Arty!" called Mrs. Mayflower, from the window, one bright June morning. "Arty, darling! What is the child after? Just look at him, Mr. Mayflower!"
    I leaned from the window, in pleasant excitement, to see what new and wonde...

  • Heart-Histories and Life Pictures

    All humanity, every individual, every mind is engrossed with self. Arthur regrets the fact that too often one does not stop to share the pain and suffering of others. That every heart has its plight and every face reflects a dilemma, is beautifully c...

  • Grappling with the Monster

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • Wreaths of Friendship, a Gift for the Young

  • Hair Breadth Escapes: Or Perious Incidents in the Lives of Sailors and Travelers in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc.

  • The Allen House, Or Twenty Years Ago And Now

    "We point to two ways in life, and if the young man and maiden, whose feet are lingering in soft green meadows and flowery walks, will consider these two ways in sober earnest, before moving onward, and choose the one that truth and reason tell them ...

  • The Angel and the Demon

    We think few mothers can read this volume without being struck with the great importance of care, in regard to the dispositions and moral qualities of those into whose hands they place their children. There are sad disorders in society at the present...

  • Anna Lee; The Maiden, The Wife, The Mother

    T. S. Arthur's Anna Lee, The Maiden, the Wife, the Mother is a romantic story following Anna Lee from youth through marriage to motherhood. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and filled with character-building lessons. His works are whole...

  • Bell Martin, or The Heiress

    T. S. Arthur's Bell Martin, or The Heiress: An American Story of Real Life is a romantic novel depicting 19th century society. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and useful tone. His works are wholesome, inculcate morality and purify the ...



  • Cast Adrift!

    A moving narrative that has been specially designed to touch the hearts and minds of the reader. The author has aimed at exposing the realities of life and to pull away the blindfolds that prevent men from seeing the sufferings around them. This work...

  • Children's Stories by Timothy Shay Arthur

    T. S. Arthur's Children's Stories is comprised of twenty-three short stories for children. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and useful tone. His works are wholesome, inculcate morality and purify the feelings - by tastefully illustratin...

  • Danger! Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend!

    In this astounding work, Arthur has tried to uncover the known-secrets about the hazards of using liquor. He has tried to shed light on the fact that the users of liquor are out to kill themselves and those to whom they lovingly offer drinks. Thought...

  • The Debtor's Daughter, or Life and its Changes

    T. S. Arthur's The Debtor's Daughter is a story of the successful merchant Herman Putnam, his family and his arrogance. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and filled with character-building lessons. His works are wholesome, inculcate mora...

  • The Divorced Wife

    T. S. Arthur's The Divorced Wife is a story of deceit and betrayal that split a family and ends in murder. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and filled with character-building lessons. His works are wholesome, inculcate morality and puri...

  • Family Pride, The Palace and the Poor House. A Romance of Real Life

    T. S. Arthur's Keeping up Appearances Family Pride The Palace and the Poor House, A Romance of Real Life, is a story traveling from happy romance to agonizing loss. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and useful tone. His works are wholeso...

  • Good Time Coming

    Only when faith has the steadfastness of a rock, can there be true hope. True hope can lead to miracles that chase away the troubles of life. All this has been brilliantly depicted here as this inspirational book preaches strong belief, an even stron...

  • The Home Mission

    If it were possible to trace back to their beginnings, in each individual, those good or evil impulses which have become ruling affections - in most cases the origin would not be found until we had reached the home of childhood. Here it is that impre...

  • Keeping Up Appearances, a Tale for the Rich and Poor

    T. S. Arthur's Keeping up Appearances a Tale for the Rich and Poor is a romantic story of choices between relationships based on convenience, wealth and love. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and useful tone. His works are wholesome, in...

  • Making Haste to Be Rich!

    T. S. Arthur's Making Haste to Be Rich, the Temptation and the Fall is a story of two friends and their paths to success and happiness. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and filled with character-building lessons. His works are wholesome...



  • Nothing but Money!

    Not in the devotion of our lives to any great leading purpose, do we secure final success and happiness; but in the devotion of our lives to an end that looks to other's good. Few, if any, so devote themselves, and few, if any, are successful and hap...

  • The Old Man's Bride

    Old Man's Bride has been written with more than common earnestness, and with a directness of purpose that never permitted the author to lose sight of the important social lesson he was aiming to teach; a lesson much needed in the present time, and on...

  • Our Neighbors in the Corner House

    Has anyone met the new neighbors in the corner house? Where are they from? Why have they moved here? Why is she dressed all in black? They are objects of curious speculation among the neighbors, a mystery to be solved and ones to be talked about. T. ...

  • Out in the World

    T. S. Arthur's Out in the World is a novel following Madeline Spencer and her new husband Carl Jansen and their growth and recognition of what the world truly offers. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and filled with character-building l...

  • Pride and Principle, Which Makes the Lady?

    T. S. Arthur's Pride and Principle is a short novel which asks the question, Pride or Principle, Which makes the Lady? This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and filled with character-building lessons. His works are wholesome, inculcate moral...

  • Pride and Prudence

    T. S. Arthur's Pride and Prudence is a novel shedding light on the wisdom of not just the joys of love and living but the joys and advantages of living prudently. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and filled with character-building lesso...

  • Prodigal Daughter

    T. S. Arthur's The Prodigal Daughter is a romantic story of heated love turned cold, about family loss and reuniting. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and filled with character-building lessons. His works are wholesome, inculcate morali...

  • The Shoemaker's Daughters

    T. S. Arthur's The Shoemaker's Daughters, also known by the title Insubordination, is a story of the love of money, cruelty and a romantic fight against the tyranny it raises. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and filled with character-b...

  • Three Years in a Man-trap

    It is nearly twenty years since the author of this volume gave to the public "Ten Nights in a Barroom" - a revelation of the evils of liquor-selling so true to nature, so vivid in pictorial effect and so strong in its delineation of character and inc...

  • A Timothy Shay Arthur Collection, Five Books in One Volume

    A Timothy Shay Arthur Collection consists of five short stories. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and filled with character-building lessons. His works are wholesome, inculcate morality and purify the feelings - by tastefully illustrati...



  • Trial and Triumph

    Trial and Triumph is one of the very best books by T. S. Atrhur A copy of it should be in every family and household for no one, either old or young, can read it without profiting by it. Like all of the writings of Arthur, there is a strong moral ton...

  • True Riches; Or, Wealth Without Wings

    The lessons herein taught are such as cannot be learned too early, nor dwelt on too long or too often, by those who are engaged in the active and all-absorbing duties of life. In the struggle for material riches - the wealth that meets the eye and ch...

  • The Two Wives; Or, Lost and Won

    The story of the "Two Wives; or, Lost and Won," is intended to show the power of tender, earnest, self-forgetting love, in winning back from the path of danger a husband whose steps have strayed, and who has approached the very brink of ruin; and, by...

  • Village Gossip

    T. S. Arthur's The Village Gossip is a novel following the events within the village of Cedardale. It is a story of how a community can be torn by simple words and how the "true-hearted and right-minded may effectually counteract the evil-doing of th...

  • The Ways of Providence or He Does All Things Well!

    Few esteem the operations of Divine Providence as having regard to anything beyond what is natural. Some even think that prosperity or adversity are sent as rewards or punishments for good or evil doing. In this there is an error. God is an eternal B...

  • The Withered Heart!

    T. S. Arthur's The Withered Heart! is a romantic novel displaying high morals and filled with character-building lessons. His works are wholesome, inculcate morality and purify the feelings - by tastefully illustrating the beauties of virtue, and the...

  • Young Wife

    T. S. Arthur's The Young Wife is a romantic novel following a young couple through happiness and sadness of marriage and life. It shows the rewards of generosity toward others. This, like Arthur's novels are of a high moral and filled with character-...

  • Wreaths of Friendship

    Four children were playing on the sea-shore. They had gathered bright pebbles and beautiful shells, and written their names in the pure, white sand; but at last, tired of their sport, they were about going home, when one of them, as they came to a pi...

  • Woman's Trials: Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life Around Us

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Tyranny in the Household

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....



  • Lovers and Husbands: A Story of Married Life

  • What Came Afterwards


    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Th...

  • Haven't-Time and Don't-Be-In-A-Hurry, and Other Stories

    Haven't-time and Don't-be-in-a-hurry, and Other Stories by T. S. Arthur. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1869 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes....

  • The Hand But Not the Heart; Or, the Life-Trials of Jessie Loring

    In this narrative, the author has presented life in its true form. With confusion and indecisive behaviour surrounding the protagonist, this is a story that covers problems faced by every individual. The tale skilfully depicts how life and social pre...

  • The Wedding Guest

    The book gives an insight into the delicate relation between husband and wife. From the hopes and joys that precede marriage to the disillusionment that follows, the author has managed to cover and solve all tribulations of the couple. If seriously f...

  • All's for the Best

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Finger Posts on the Way of Life

  • Home Lights and Shadows

  • The Iron Rule; Or, Tyranny in the Household

    This is a narrative that dwells on the intolerant attitude of one character. Arthur has beautifully depicted that the tender and sweet feelings deeply embedded in people might whither away due to harsh attitudes. But, love, like free water, makes its...

  • The Lights and Shadows of Real Life



  • Lizzy Glenn

  • Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Words for the Wise

    This is a collection of short pieces, each an anecdote that teaches some profound lesson of conduct. The work invokes deep thoughts in readers due to its poignant style of narration. Arthur has related his ideas in the most idiosyncratic manner. That...

  • The Miller of Old Church

    It was past four o'clock on a sunny October day, when a stranger, who had ridden over the corduroy road between Applegate and Old Church, dismounted near the cross-roads before the small public house known to its frequenters as Bottom's Ordinary....

  • After the Storm

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    Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - NO June day ever opened with a fairer promise. Not a single cloud flecked the sky, and...

  • Friends And Neighbours, Or Two Ways Of Living In The World

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  • Lessons In Life, For All Who Will Read Them

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  • Who Are Happiest? And Other Stories

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    Timothy Shay (T. S.) Arthur (1809-1885) was a popular nineteenth-century American author. He is most famous 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 publi...

  • Debtor And Creditor; A Tale Of The Times

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

  • Home Scenes, and Home Influence

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    You may well say that. He thinks a great deal about the comforts of life; but he is going the wrong way to secure them, in my opinion. His parlour furniture, including the new piano, cost nearly one thousand dollars; mine cost three hundred; and I'm ...

  • The Last Penny and Other Stories

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    The Last Penny, And Other Stories. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern ed...

  • Light On Shadowed Paths

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    Many of the earliest books particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive We are republishing these classic works in affordable high quality modern editions using the original text and artwo...

  • Married Life, Its Shadows and Sunshine

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  • Off-Hand Sketches, A Little Dashed With Humour

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    General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you g...

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

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    This vintage book contains T. S. Arthur’s 1854 novel, "10 Nights in a Bar-Room - And What I Saw There". A seminal American Temperance novel, on its initial publication, "10 Nights in a Bar-Room" matched “Uncle Tom's Cabin” i...

  • Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing

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    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

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T.S. Arthur / Timothy Shay Arthur has published 65 books.

T.S. Arthur / Timothy Shay Arthur does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Miller of Old Church, was published in July 2023.

The first book by T.S. Arthur / Timothy Shay Arthur, After a Shadow, was published in January 2006.

No. T.S. Arthur / Timothy Shay Arthur does not write books in series.
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