The Killers : : A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia / / George Lippard; ed. by Matt Cohen, Edlie L. Wong.
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 reveng...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 11 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- The Killers: A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia, by a Member of the Philadelphia Bar
- Appendix 1. Life and Adventures of Charles Anderson Chester
- Appendix 2. Introduction to the Serialized Version of The Killers
- Appendix 3. Related Contemporary Documents
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments