Book: The Quaker City Or The Monks Of Monk Hall: A Romance Of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, And Crime 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 labor and social reformer.
"One of the most interesting and influential of 19th-century American novels. Long out of print it] is a colorful, challenging, lubricious extravaganza in which passionate social concern and feverish Gothic excess somehow vigorously coexist". -- Kirkus Reviews
Details of Book: The Quaker City Or The Monks Of Monk Hall: A Romance Of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, And Crime Book: The Quaker City Or The Monks Of Monk Hall: A Romance Of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, And Crime
Author: George Lippard, David S. Reynolds
ISBN: 0870239716
ISBN-13: 9780870239717
, 978-0870239717
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 1995/07/01
Publisher: University Of Massachusetts Press
Number of Pages: 632
Language: English