The Quaker City, or the Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime by Lippard, George

The Quaker City, or the Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780870239717)

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The Quaker City, or the Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime by Lippard, George

The Quaker City, or the Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime

$34.95
The Quaker City, or the Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime by Lippard, George

The Quaker City, or the Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: George Lippard
ISBN-10: 0870239716
ISBN-13: 9780870239717
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Language: English
Published: 07/20/1995
Pages: 632
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.55w x 1.38d
By George Lippard
By George Lippard
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Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, David S. Reynolds is author of numerous books, including Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography and the prize-winning Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville.

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