The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime
by George Lippard
edited by David S. Reynolds
University of Massachusetts Press, 1995
Paper: 978-0-87023-971-7 | eISBN: 978-1-68575-507-2 (ePub) | eISBN: 978-1-68575-506-5 (PDF)
ABOUT THIS BOOK
America's best-selling novel in its time, The Quaker City, published in 1845, is a sensational exposé of social corruption, personal debauchery, and the sexual exploitation of women in antebellum Philadelphia. This new edition, with an introduction by David S. Reynolds, brings back into print this important work by George Lippard (1822-1854), a journalist, freethinker, and labor and social reformer.
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