num_pages: 632
description: America's best-selling novel in its time, The Quaker City , published in 1845, is a sensational exposé 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.
language: English
title: The Quaker City: The Monks of Monk Hall
titlecomplete: The Quaker City: The Monks of Monk Hall
genres: Classics, Dark, Adult, Gothic, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 184
publisher: University of Massachusetts Press