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

Author/Contributor(s):	Lippard, George ; Reynolds, David S
Publisher:	University of Massachusetts Press
Date:	07/20/1995
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.