Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Song of Sixpence
It may be said that Emmy Moran is, in some respects, a modern counterpart of Becky Sharp. This is by no means true. Becky is essentially a wicked woman. Her punish ment comes, as is so usual in novels, through the bitterness of obscurity and poverty. Emmy, on the other hand, is by no means essentially wicked. By worldly standards, she remains a virtuous wo'man throughout the book. She finds her punishment, not in physical suffering, not in material want, but through a realization of the fact that, like Esau, she has sold her birthright for a mess of red pottage. Her case is by no means an unusual one. Retribution in real life seldom comes in purely material ways. Many a woman who has parted with her birthright of love, and little children, has come to realize, not in sackcloth and ashes, but in purple and fine linen, Nature's grim lack of humor.
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