The Quaker City: Or, the Monks of Monk Hall - a Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Crime

Reynolds, David S., Reynolds, David C., Lippard, George

America's best-selling novel in its time, ""The Quaker City"", published in 1845, is a sensational expose 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 labour and social reformer.

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A scholarly reprint of George Lippard's scandalous 1844 sensationalist gothic masterpiece detailing urban corruption, decadence, and secret societies.

EAN

9780870239717

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Published

20 July 1995

Pages

640

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