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• The Flying Inn (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Flying Inn (New York: J. Lane Co., 1914), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Six nights with the Washingtonians; a series of temperance tales. (Godey & M'Michael, 1843), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reconstructing Eden (New Eden Pub. Co., 1909), by Howard Louis Conard, Billy Ireland, and New Eden Publishing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time to strike. (Pentecostal Publishing Company, 1908), by Alpin M. Bowes, Charles B. Allen, and Pentecostal Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Mother's Gold Ring: Founded on Fact: Eighth Edition, by Lucius M. Sargent (Gutenberg ebook)

• Franklin Evans, or, The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times (New York: Random House, 1929), by Walt Whitman, ed. by Emory Holloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• John and the Demijohn (Boston: H. Hoyt, c1869), by Julia McNair Wright (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• A Million Too Much: A Temperance Tale (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1871), by Julia McNair Wright (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• My Parish, and What Happened In It (Glasgow: J. S. Marr and Sons, 1872), by M. A. Paull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Purple Springs (Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1921), by Nellie L. McClung (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Rachel Noble's Experience (Glasgow: Scottish Temperance League, 1884), by Bruce Edwards (PDF at djm.cc)
• Ruth and Marie: A Fascinating Story of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago and Philadelphia: American Bible House, c1895), by Emma Pow Bauder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Second Chance (Toronto: William Briggs, 1910), by Nellie L. McClung (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Six Nights with the Washingtonians, and Other Temperance Tales (Philadelphia: T. B. Petersen and Brothers, c1871), by T. S. Arthur (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sowing Seeds in Danny (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1908), by Nellie L. McClung
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• Ten Nights in a Bar Room, by T. S. Arthur (Gutenberg text)
• Sowing and Reaping (from a reprint; originally published 1876-1877), by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Gutenberg text)
• The Enemy (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester, illust. by A. B. Wenzell
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• Memoirs of a water drinker (Saunders and Otley, 1837), by William Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hot corn : life scenes in New York illustrated : including the story of little Katy, Madalina, the rag-picker's daughter, wild Maggie, &c. (De Witt and Davenport, Publishers, 1854), by Solon Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sammy Seymour, the drunkard's boy : a story for boys (Published for Carlton & Porter, Sunday-School Union, 1861), by C. M. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman to the rescue : a story of the new crusade (J. M. Stoddart, 1874), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• East and West (R. Craighead, 1853), by Daphne S. Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under the shadow of a curse (Press of Frank N. West, in the 1900s), by E. Norine Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mapleton, or, More work for the Maine law. (Jenks, Hickling and Swan, 1853), by Pharcellus Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two (New Voice Press, 1901), by Edith Smith Davis and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free at last. (Press of Murdoch, Kerr & Co., 1896), by Jane S. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crusaders : a story of the Women's Temperance Movement of 1873-74 (Peabody, Macey, & Co., 1882), by Emma R. Norton and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Downward, or, The new distillery (The American Sunday-School Union, 1883), by Sarah J. Jones and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten nights in a bar room (H. Altemus, 1899), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnie Herman; or The curse of rum. A tale for the times (H. S. Goodspeed & company; [etc., etc.], 1878), by Thurlow W. Brown, George T. Ferris, and George T. Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The temperance tales. (Jewett, 1853), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Black Valley : the railroad and the country, with an account of the introduction of water. An allegory. (Congregational Publishing Society ..., 1871), by S. W. Hanks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boy; a sketch (J.B. Lippincott, 1900), by Marie Corelli and J.B. Lippincott Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance. (Bible Institute Colportage Association, 1896), by Mark Guy Pearse and Bible Institute Colportage Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fountain and the bottle; comprising thrilling examples of the opposite effects of temperance and intemperance. (Case, Tiffany and co., 1853), by A son of temperance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Lovell: a temperance story, for old and young. (A. S. Arnold, 1878), by Alexander Streeter Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ti nætter i en skjænkestue og hvad jeg der saa (Verdens gangs forlag, 1882), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why I am a temperance man: a series of letters to a friend. (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854), by Thurlow W. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Harvey boys : illustrating the evils of intemperance and their remedy (American Sunday-School Union, 1834), by American Sunday-School Union (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nelly's dark days (Scottish Temperance League, 1870), by Hesba Stretton and Scottish Temperance League (page images at HathiTrust)
• Norman Brill's life-work (National Temperence Society and Publication House, 1875), by Abby E. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rev. Dr. Willoughby and his wine (Natl. Temperance Society, 1886), by Mary Spring Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnie Hermon: or, The night and its morning; a tale for the times ... (Miller, Orton & Co., 1857), by Thurlow W. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rev. Dr. Willoughby and his wine ... (Scottish Temperance League, 1870), by Mary Spring Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lathams: a tale. (Scottish Temperance League, 1858), by Fairleigh Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance tales. (Whipple and Damrell ;, 1838), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nelly's dark days ... (Dodd & Mead, 1870), by Hesba Stretton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little ragged ten thousand (Published for a Committee, 1854), by P. H. Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toots, and other stories, old fashioned stories and jingles for new fashioned little folk (The Author, 1906), by Anna A. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• From father to son (Right Worthy Lodge, Independent Order Good Templars, 1879), by Mary Dwinell Chellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Danesbury house (Harper, 1860), by Mrs. Henry Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stephen Holton; a story of life as it is in town and country (L. C. Page & Company, 1902), by Charles Felton Pidgin and Frank T. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The inebriate's hut; or, The first fruits of the Maine law. (Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1854), by S. A. Southworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wife's messengers [a novel] (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1869), by Mary B. Horton and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dick Wilson, the rumseller's victim (Derby & Miller ;, 1853), by John K. Cornyn and Thurlow W. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six nights with the Washingtonians (Peterson, 1865), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trials of Helen More. (M. E. Harmstead, 1849), by Maria Lamas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The stage-coach : founded on fact. (Published by Whipple & Damrell ;, 1838), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The catastrophe, a tale of the nineteenth century. (Rand & Southmayd, 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
• My mother's gold ring (Published by Ford and Damrell, 1833), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Mother's gold ring : founded on fact. (Ford and Damrell, 1833), by Lucius M. Sargent, Mass.) Temperance Press (Boston, and Ford and Damrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• What a curse! : or, Johnny Hodges, the blacksmith (W. S. Damrell, 1836), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnny Hodges, the blacksmith. (W. S. Damrell, 1835), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The temperance tales (W. S. Damrell, 1835), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The temperence tales (W.J. Holland & Co., 1873), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance. (Bible Institute Colportage Association, 1896), by Mark Guy Pearse and Bible Institute Colportage Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The glass of gin. (Brognard & co., 1851), by Eliza Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The power of the pledge : a sequel to the history of the bottle, as originally published in the New York Organ (Oliver & brother, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance versus intemperance. (Mrs. M.L. Buckley, 1853), by Maria L. Buckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passages from the history of a wasted life (B.B. Mussey, 1853), by John Ross Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benjamin, the temperance boy. (Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1853), by Christopher C. Dean and Massachusetts Sabbath School Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lost Children, a Temperance Tale. (N.Y., 1848), by T.S. Arthur, Tudor Horton, Oliver & Brother, and T. Horton & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fountain and the bottle : comprising thrilling examples of the opposite effects of temperance and intemperance. (Horace Wentworth, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jug-or-not. (National temperance society and publication house, 1870), by Julia McNair Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six nights with the Washingtonians; a series of temperance tales. (Godey & M'Michael, 1843), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fallen saved. (E. P. Williams, 1844), by W. H. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old doctor's son. (H.A. Young & Co., 1870), by Mary Dwinell Chellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Mother's gold ring. (J.P Jewett;, 1852), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wine and blood. (Southern Methodist publishing house, 1880), by Robert W. Bigham and Thomas O. Summers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Digging a grave with a wine-glass (H. Hoyt, 1871), by Mrs. S. C. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dick Wilson, the rumseller's victim : or, Humanity pleading for the "Maine law." A temperance story -- founded on fact (Derby and Miller ;, 1853), by John K. Cornyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compensation; a tale of temperance. (The National temperance society and publication house, 1887), by Mary Evalin Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lights and shadows of real life. (J.W. Bradley, 1859), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ned Hampden (D. Miller, 1893), by I. A. Sites (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father's day at the baby show (American Issue Pub. Co.?, 1918), by Emma L. Benedict Transeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buy your own cherries : and other tales (Henry Altemus Company, 1800), by John William Kirton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Devil-Drink family : Father! Mother! and their hundred and one children (however many more of them) (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890), by Philip Bennett Power and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Tract Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unjust judge: or, The evils of intemperance on judges, lawyers, and politicians. ([Printed at the Western branch book concern of the Wesleyan Methodist connection of America], 1854), by William Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Temperance tales, no. 1-19. (Whipple and Damrell, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The temperance boys (Phillips & Hunt ;, 1858), by Julia Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas & New Year's story (Published under the direction of the Shakspeare Division of Sons of Temperance, No. 46, 1854), by John Ross Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blot or blessing? : a village temperance story (Church of England Temperance Society, 1909), by M. S. Hagen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• By the Trent (Scottish Temperance League, 1884), by E. S. Oldham and Scottish Temperance League (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through deep waters : a temperance story (Robert Culley, 1902), by F. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Castle Corpus : twenty-four allegories and stories illustrative of the effect of alcohol on the human body (Church of England Temperance Society, 1901), by Mary E. Kendrew and Church of England. Temperance Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The worst foe : a temperance story (W.G. Hubbard, 1892), by Grace Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Save the boys (National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1883), by Margaret E. Winslow, Kirk Collection (Brown University), and National Temperance Society and Publication House (page images at HathiTrust)
• How Janice Day won (Goldsmith, 1917), by Helen Beecher Long and Corinne Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mysterious parchment and satanic license (A. Colby and Co., 1859), by Joel Wakeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The temperance tales : twenty-one thrilling stories : founded on fact (N. Broughton Jr., 1800), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The family doctor, or, Mrs. Barry and her bourbon (J. Dougall;, 1870), by Mary Spring Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A visit to the spring on the hillside, or, The temperance question (s.n.], 1887), by R. T. K. (page images at HathiTrust)
• More work for the Maine law (J.C. Becket, 1853), by Pharcellus Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. World and Miss Church-member a twentieth century allegory (W. Briggs, 1903), by W. S. Harris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Roseville Seminary a temperance story (Hunter, Rose, 1878), by Maria Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Tempérance en exemples (s.n.], 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Par la lutte et par l'amour nouvelle de tempérance (s.n., 1909), by père Hugolin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The old red school-house. A temperance story for teachers and pupils. (Friends' book association of Philadelphia, 1895), by Elizabeth Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ti nætter i en skjænkestue og hvad jeg der saa (J. Anderson, 1908), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black rock: a tale of the Selkirks (The Westminster Co., 1898), by Ralph Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teetotaler Dick: his adventures, temptations and triumphs. A temperance story (Ward & Drummond, 1890), by Thomas Wallace Knox, Helen P. Strong, and Ward & Drummond (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman to the rescue : a story of the new crusade (Arthur's Select Works Publishing House, 1874), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emma's triumph; or, The power of Christian consistency, a story of Ocean Grove. (United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1891), by Jane S. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water-drops (Robert Carter, 1849), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rev. Dr. Willoughby and his wine (National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1869), by Mary Spring Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Irish heart : founded on fact. (William S. Damrell :, 1836), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nancy Le Baron : founded on fact. (William S. Damrell ;, 1837), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• What a curse! : or, Johnny Hodges, the blacksmith : founded on fact. (Whipple and Damrell ;, 1838), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The temperance tales (W. J. Reynolds & Co., 1848), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Derry's lake (Published for the author by J.C. Garrigues & Co., 1870), by S. B. Chase, Westcott & Thomson, and J.C. Garrigues & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bread and beer (Right Worthy Grand Lodge, Independent Order Good Templars, 1888), by Mary Dwinell Chellis, National Temperance Society and Publication House, and Wis.) Independent Order Good Templars. Right Worthy Grand Lodge (Mauston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Norman Brill's life-work (National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1882), by Abby Eldredge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Afterward : a sequel to "Beforehand." (The National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1891), by S. M. I. Henry and National Temperance Society and Publication House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emma's triumph (United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1886), by Jane S. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passages from the history of a wasted life (Benjamin B. Mussey, 1853), by John Ross Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why I am a temperance man : a series of letters to a friend : together with Tales and sketches from real life, and Hearth-stone reveries (Derby and Miller ;, 1853), by Thurlow W. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prince Alcohol. (American Baptist Publication Society, 1840), by American Baptist Publication Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under ban (National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1885), by Margaret E. Winslow and National Temperance Society and Publication House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves from the book of human life (J.W. Bradley, 1853), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hortense: the romance of a year : a temperance novel (Acme Publishing Company, 1902), by Bernice McCally Pollock and Acme Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tables turned : a temperance story (The Roxburgh Publishing Company, Inc., 1914), by Mattie Talbert Fay and Roxburgh Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rum and ruin, the story of Dr. Caldwell : a thrilling romance (Laird & Lee, 1909), by Edward Reynolds Roe (page images at HathiTrust)
• High Joe : or, The Logger's story (The Busy World, 1892), by Jabez Burritt Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love and life (Hall, Black & Co., 1897), by Charles Wesley McCrossan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The worst foe : a temperance story (W.G.Hubbard, 1904), by Grace Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The white rose (National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1875), by Mary J. Hedges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dream (New York : Thomas Hamilton, 1859 [i.e. 1860?], 1859), by George Barrell Cheever, Henry J. Crate, Thomas Hamilton, and John Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dream, or, The true history of Deacon Giles' distillery, and Deacon Jones' brewery (Printed for the publishers, 1848), by George Barrell Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)
• The blue flag (American Tract Society, 1861), by Sarah S. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnie Hermon, or, The Night and its morning : a tale for the times (C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 1859), by Thurlow W. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Driftwood. Sketches from real life. (National Temperance Publ. Depot, 1892), by Agnes Hedenström Welin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saved by sympathetic kindness and the grace of God. A tale of to-day. (National Temperance Soc. and Publ. House, 1877), by Margaret E. Winslow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boys of Princeville; or, Temperance reform in the fifties (American Baptist pub. society, 1898), by C. A. Hobbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ti nætter i en skjænkestue og hvad jeg der saa (J. Anderson Pub. Co., 1903), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effie Raymond's life work (J. S. Marr, 1874), by Jeannie Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The little captain. A temperance tale. (Amer. Tract Soc., in the 1870s), by Lynde Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dick Wilson, the rum-seller's victim (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854), by John K. Cornyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance tales : or, six nights with the Washingtonians (Leary & Getz, 1848), by T. S. Arthur and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seed time and harvest : founded on fact. (Whipple and Damrell, 1838), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitty Grafton ; founded on fact. (Whipple and Damrell, 1837), by Lucius M. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female sailor (Published by Graves & Bartlett, 1841), by S. L. and Graves & Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young music teacher, and other tales. (Henry F. Anners [Stereoyped by R.P. Mogridge; King & Baird, printers], 1847), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance versus intemperance. (Pub. for the author, 1852), by Maria L. Buckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dick Wilson, the rumseller's victim. (New York, 1855), by John K. Cornyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female influence (Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1834), by Sarah Tuttle and Massachusetts Sabbath School Society. Committee of Publication (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten nights in a bar-room, and what I saw there (L. P. Crown, 1855), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance tales; or, Six nights with the Washingtonians. (W.A. Leary & Co., 1848), by T. S. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dangers of dining out; or, Hints to those who would make home happy. (D. Appleton & Co., 1845), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thrilling scenes in cottage life; or, the opposite effects of vice and virtue. (Dayton and Wentworth, 1853), by Son of temperance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scenes in the West; or, The Sunday-School and Temperance (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Drunkard, by Guy Thorne (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Mother's Gold Ring: Founded on Fact: Eighth Edition, by Lucius M. Sargent (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated, by Solon Robinson, illust. by Nathaniel Orr (Gutenberg ebook)
• When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry, by Charles Neville Buck, illust. by George W. Gage (Gutenberg ebook)
• Little Wolf: A Tale of the Western Frontier, by Mary Ann Mann Cornelius (Gutenberg ebook)
• For John's Sake, and Other Stories., by Annie Frances Perram (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Daughter of a Republican, by Bernie Babcock (Gutenberg ebook)

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