Project Gutenberg 2006-07-05 Public domain in the USA. 167 Faulkner, Thomas A. From the Ball-Room to Hell Reading ease score: 72.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by David Starner, Suzanne Lybarger, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress) "From the Ball-Room to Hell" by Thomas A. Faulkner is a provocative work written in the early 1890s, during a time of significant moral questioning in American society. This critical text serves as a cautionary account that aims to unmask the perceived dangers and moral degradation associated with dancing and social entertainment. Faulkner draws upon his experiences as a former dancing master to argue against the influence of dance on the virtue of young women, warning that it leads to a life of shame and destruction. In this book, Faulkner presents a series of haunting narratives and observations about young women who lose their innocence in the world of ballroom dancing. Through detailed character studies of girls who begin their journey with excitement and end in despair, Faulkner illustrates the seductive nature of dance and its ability to awaken undesirable passions. He recounts stories of deception by men who frequent these social gatherings, luring innocent girls into compromising situations. Fearing for the souls of the young and vulnerable, Faulkner fervently calls on parents to protect their children from what he perceives as an insidious path leading to ruin. The text is a stark and uncompromising exploration of morality, with a strong emphasis on the impact that seemingly harmless social activities can have on a person's life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Dance GV Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Travel & Geography Browsing: Other 102084 102033 2024-10-08T09:40:21.290651 2023-09-08T10:56:58.139995 text/html text/html 100127 2006-07-05T15:49:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 36829 2006-07-05T15:49:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 105929 2024-10-08T09:40:25.930664 application/epub+zip 105115 2024-10-08T09:40:23.076642 application/epub+zip 105114 2024-10-08T09:40:21.941651 application/epub+zip 201152 2024-10-08T09:40:28.086638 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 185526 2024-10-08T09:40:25.236642 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 149574 2022-09-09T05:39:53.388405 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 87867 87637 2024-10-08T09:40:20.737656 2023-09-08T10:56:57.868991 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 87708 2006-07-05T15:49:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 33809 2006-07-05T15:49:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19317 2024-10-08T09:40:28.215609 application/rdf+xml 11132 2024-10-08T09:40:22.478639 image/jpeg 3161 2024-10-08T09:40:22.204658 image/jpeg 99640 2024-10-08T09:40:21.300671 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog