It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.


Points of View (1891 edition), Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.


It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.