The Quaker city, or, The monks of Monk Hall
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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.
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First Published
1845
Pages
494 pages
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5
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T.B. Peterson
Language
ENG
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