T. S. Arthur's After the Storm is the story of a young married couple who love but are carried away by their self will and possessions. Lost and separated trying to find answers to their lives, they realize their love for each other. 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 illustrating the beauties of virtue, and the iniquities of vice.Timothy Shay Arthur was a popular 19th-century American author most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There. He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book. Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable life in America. Arthur was one of the most popular and widely read author of his time.