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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.

Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, David S. Reynolds is author of numerous books, including Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography and the prize-winning Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville .