George Lippard: 3 books

Book cover of The Killers

The Killers

A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia

by George Lippard
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014

PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband slave trade. Another son, hidden from his father since birth and condemned as a former felon, falls in with a ferocious street gang led by his elder brother and his revenge-hungry...
Book cover of THE MAN WITH THE MASK

THE MAN WITH THE MASK

A SEQUEL TO THE MEMOIRS OF A PREACHER, A REVELATION OF THE CHURCH AND THE HOME.

by GEORGE LIPPARD
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2012

THE MAN WITH THE MASK; A SEQUEL TO THE MEMOIRS OF A PREACHER, A REVELATION OF THE CHURCH AND THE HOME. BY GEORGE LIPPARD, AUTHOR OF WASHINGTON AND HIS GENERALS, PAUL ARDENHEIM, QUAKER CITY, LADYE ANNABEL, THE NAZARENE, LEGENDS OF MEXICO, ETC. ETC. “The life of a popular...
Book cover of New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by George Lippard
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011

Published in 1853, this novel of gothic sensationalism and class struggle, featuring the wealthy Van Huyden family, has the narrative momentum—and subtlety—of a freight train.  "Has this wealth no duties to mankind?" he demands rhetorically in a question that could as easily be asked today. 
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