The Quaker City
Or, the Monks of Monk Hall - a Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Crime
George Lippard author David C Reynolds editor David S Reynolds editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
Published:31st Jul '95
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
ISBN: 9780870239717
Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 35mm
Weight: 715g
640 pages