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The Quaker City, or, The monks of Monk Hall : a romance of Philadelphia life, mystery, and crime / George Lippard ; edited, with introduction and notes by David S. Reynolds.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Lippard Quaker
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lippard, George, 1822-1854.
- Standardized Title:
- Quaker City
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Fiction.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- City and town life--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Fiction.
- Crime--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Fiction.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xliv, 582 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Quaker City
- Monks of Monk Hall
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1995.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Mary, the merchant's daughter
- The forger
- Mabel
- Ravoni the sorcerer
- The death-angels
- Christmas Eve.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-582).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0870239716
- 9780870239717
- OCLC:
- 31756290
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