The Quaker City, Or, the Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime
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Author(s)George Lippard
PublisherUniversity of Massachusetts Press
ISBN / ASIN0870239716
ISBN-139780870239717
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank770,525
CategoryFiction
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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America's best-selling novel in its time, The Quaker City, published in 1845, is a sensational expos 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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