A group of friends, among them the obstinate Dennis and the conciliatory Audubon, take up a single question over several conversations: what is good? Dickinson revives the Platonic dialogue for Edwardian Englishmen, setting pleasure, duty, art, religion and the social good against one another.
A graceful example of philosophy in conversation, by the Cambridge humanist whose life E. M. Forster later wrote. Download the free EPUB.