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.
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The Quaker City is an expose of social corruption, personal debauchery and the sexual exploitation of women in the antebellum Philadelphia. ""The Monks of the Monk Hall"" illuminates urban America in the 19th century. Both these novels are edited and introduced in this volume.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780870239717
Publisert
1995-07-31
Utgiver
University of Massachusetts Press; University of Massachusetts Press
Vekt
715 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
35 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
640

Forfatter
Volume editor
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