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The Quaker City: The Monks of Monk Hall

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.

Themes
gothic
Setting
Philadelphia
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 632 pages

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