The Quaker City by George Lippard
America's best-selling novel in its time, The Quaker City, published in 1845, is a sensational expos 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.
Lippard, George: - George Lippard was a popular and prolific nineteenth-century novelist, journalist, playwright, and social activist. He was a close friend of Edgar Allan Poe and was credited by Poe as saving him from the streets on numerous occasions. He called his historical fiction stories Legends as they were not so much about what happened as about what he thought ought to have happened.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780870239717 |
| ISBN 10 | 0870239716 |
| Title | The Quaker City |
| Author | George Lippard |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Year published | 1995-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 640 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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