Herbert Wace, a young economist in California, plans to marry not for love but for sound biological reasons, and explains his theory to Dane Kempton, an old poet in London who loved him as a son. Kempton replies in defence of romantic passion. London wrote Wace’s letters and Anna Strunsky wrote Kempton’s, and the debate grows more personal as it goes.
A fascinating literary duel of 1903, revealing as much about its authors as about love. Download the free EPUB.