"The Quaker City": Or, the Monks of Monk Hall - A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Crime (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for "The Quaker City" 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 labor and social reforme...
Full description- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Published: 31 July 1995
- Format: Paperback 640 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Classics | Crime
- ISBN 13: 9780870239717 ISBN 10: 0870239716
- Sales rank: 1,372,365
Full description for "The Quaker City"
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 labor and social reformer.

