The Quaker City, Or, The Monks of Monk Hall

The Quaker City, Or, The Monks of Monk Hall

A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime

by George Lippard

582 pages· 1995· ISBN 9780870239717
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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.

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