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 labour and social reformer.
ISBN: | 9780870239717 |
Publication date: | 31st July 1995 |
Author: | George Lippard, David S Reynolds |
Publisher: | University of Massachusetts Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 640 pages |
Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary |