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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.