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(More customer reviews)This excellently written, well-thought-out book is a study in the philosophy of conscience on two levels: Pauline's as an individual, and that of the society in which she found it necessary to survive. We read first-hand of Pauline's own yearning after and struggle for decency, her despair over her rejection by the church, her compensatory generosity and altruism. She knows her sin: being mercenary, but somehow the memories that she treasures end by being more compassionate than mercenary, even as she insists that the vices of man put her own greed in the shadow. Above and beyond the person of Pauline Tabor is the question of where the oldest profession in the world fits or should fit in society. We see this being faced by the most influential people in the town, with no resolution. Humanity is still humanity. Adam was a man of the earth, nor can we moralize away the dust that clings to him. We don't see here the hard women of "East of Eden", but a real one, who faced with compassion issues more common to another time, when society was not as kind to women on their own.
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