George Lippard

Broschiertes Buch

The Quaker City, or the Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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 .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 141mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780870239717
• ISBN-10: 0870239716
• Artikelnr.: 21865436