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Arthur's  Six Nights with the Washingtonians (1842), and the autobiographical  Narrative of Charles T. Woodman, A Reformed Inebriate (1843), still speak with suprising force to the miseries of drunkenness and the joys of deliverance. Contemporary readers familiar with twelve-step programs, Crowley notes, will feel a shock of recognition as they relate to the experience, strength, and hope of these old-time-but nonetheless timely-narratives of addiction, despair, and recovery.  \"I arose, reached the door in safety, and, passing the entry, entered my own room and closed the door after me. To my amazement the chairs were engaged in chasing the tables round the room; to my eye the bed appeared to be stationary and neutral, and I resolved to make it my ally; I thought it would be safest to run, as by that means I should reach it sooner, but in the attempt I found myself instantly prostrate on the floor...How long I slept I know not; but when I awoke I was still on the floor, and alone...I have since been through all the heights, and depths, and labyrinths of misery; but never, no never, have I felt again the unutterable agony of that moment. I wept, I groaned, I actually tore my hair; I did every thing but the  one thing that could have saved me.\"-from  Confessions of a Female Inebriate, excerpted in  Drunkard's Progress","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49631732859153,"sku":"GOR012632112","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367081087249,"sku":"CIN0801860075G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50924693651729,"sku":"GOR006265979","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53266364596497,"sku":"GOR002343609","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801860075.jpg?v=1751043160"},{"product_id":"white-logic-book-john-w-crowley-9780870239441","title":"The White Logic","description":"There are no second acts in American lives. 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He also looks at the \"\"drunk narratives\"\", a mode of fiction that expresses the conjunction of modernism and alcoholism in a pervasive ideology of despair - the \"\"White Logic\"\" of John Barleycorn, London's nihilistic lord of the spirits.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50364423536913,"sku":"CIN0870239449G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0870239449.jpg?v=1760781237"},{"product_id":"new-essays-on-winesburg-ohio-book-john-w-crowley-9780521387231","title":"New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio","description":"Sixty years after its first publication, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio continues to stand as a 'classic' of modernist American fiction. In original new essays by David H. Stouck, Marcia Jacobson, Clare E. 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