Excerpt from What May We Read?: A Conversation Story
This conversation-story was written some years ago (in 1892) and has been in my desk ever since. It is one of a series of short stories, half story and half essay, originally called by me the "Ethics of the Surface Series." I advisedly meant to present to the reading public a modern form of literary work, not unknown since the days of Plato, but still uncommon. It aimed at combining the modern form of fiction with the older forms of the dialogue, and to reproduce the actual conditions of life among thoughtful people of our own day.
The central point of interest to the composition as a work of literary art is always furnished by some social or ethical question. Such questions are usually dealt with in the form of essays, without any personal or dramatic setting.
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