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PRINCE_OF_SINNERS

                                             September 23, 2010
                                             December  22, 2013
E. Phillips Oppenheim,
"A Prince of Sinners" (1903)      Found at the
                                  Gutenberg Project.

A *political* romance novel.

The rich beating their heads
against the problems of the poor.

Passionately arguing in favor of
  (1) protectionism
  (2) non-judgmental, non-religious charity

      (of the care-not-cash variety).

The main character sincerely takes the "it's all
society's fault" line, absolving the poor over any
responsiblity at all for their own transgressions.



                                  The romance-novel plot depends on a
                                  stubborn rigidity on all parties,
                                  where everyone avoids doing what
                                  they should obviously do.

                                       Not an unfamiliar
                                       syndrome, in fiction.      And out?



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